After nine months of delays, former UBC staff member Ian Linkletter argued that Proctorio’s confidentiality lawsuit against him was meritless in the BC Supreme Court this week.
“As the investigation and assessment is continuing, we are not in a position to provide additional information at this time.”
The UBC Vancouver Senate approved a plan to slightly reduce enrolment next year and amendments to the Deans Appointment Policy at last night’s meeting.
According to meeting minutes, the AMS had been considering putting forward a referendum in this year’s AMS elections since late October 2021.
The comments were made during a break in class when Dr. John Sherman was discussing the semantics of calling something a fact or racist.
President Santa Ono and Principal of UBC Okanagan Lesley Cormack said classes would be in person until the end of term two in a broadcast email sent to community members on January 26.
The Alberta Major Crimes Unit charged a 20-year-old male with the second-degree murder of Melanie Lowen, a 48-year-old woman from Airdrie, Alberta.
The sender called Bhangu misogynistic slurs several times and blamed her for UBC’s extension of online classes from January 24 to February 7.
In a UBC Broadcast posted earlier this morning, President Santa Ono told students they should plan to be on campus in early February.
At least five Master of Management Dual Degree students tested positive for COVID-19 following a series of in-person program events held during the last full-week of finals.
Despite universities across the country moving online until mid-January or February, UBC has maintained that classes will be in person in the new year.
President Santa Ono announced that UBC will be expanding its COVID-19 testing and reaffirmed that exams will continue in person in an update earlier this afternoon.
In a now-deleted post on the UBC subreddit, some other students complained about the lack of ventilation and crowdedness of the centre’s testing rooms.
At its last meeting of the year, the UBC Board of Governors heard from public health experts on UBC’s COVID-19 safety amid the emerging Omicron variant, and endorsed the university’s Climate Action Plan 2030.
The UNA said residents may not have received an election package because ballots “might have been returned due to a change in postal code.”