After UBC’s anti-racist commitments, Equity & Inclusion Office staff quickly realized that the lack of data on racialized students at UBC would be an obstacle to progress.
Here’s what you need to know from last night’s AMS Council meeting.
After over a year of planning and consultation, university executives endorsed UBC’s Inclusion Action Plan in December 2019, but its implementation is only just beginning.
University community members are reconciling two facts about Michael Korenberg: his performance as Board chair and what critics have called his racist political views.
UBC Chancellor Lindsay Gordon’s term holding one of the most senior positions at his own alma mater is coming to a close.
The May 28 panel, taking place the same week as the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests across the United States, spent much of its time discussing anti-Blackness in Asian communities and what can be done to address it.
The grocery store can’t replace my parents’ cooking or my brother’s sarcasm or my family’s love, but I guess it’s good enough for now.
Celebrating our culture and history here in Canada and around the world also means celebrating the content and creators who help us to understand ourselves and share our experiences with one another.
The second-year arts student came into her first year at the AMS on a platform of “sustainability, affordability and transparency,” and her goals included introducing a new ticketing platform and implementing an online money transfer system.
As classes move online, recreational activities and institutions around Vancouver are also closing as the government tightens measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in BC. Here’s a list of what’s closing.
After a year of productions exploring the past, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. looks to be a refreshingly relevant play about anger, feminism and the specific type of rage that can incite revolution.
As an incumbent running in an unopposed race, Liang emphasized automation and digitization to modernize the AMS’s “outdated” financial systems, particularly the reimbursement system for clubs.
As a newcomer to the Senate without any student government experience, Snow Wang has three main goals: implementing a fall reading break, improving course evaluation surveys and eliminating scaling, or down-curving.
While her vision for “sustainability, affordability and transparency” remains constant, her platform for re-election has evolved to showcase more tangible steps.
The current VP finance running unopposed for re-election opened the debate by making a strong criticism of the society’s current financial systems and discussing how she would make the finance department more efficient and effective for the benefit of student staff, club treasurers and the students at large.