The Board of Governors voted to increase tuition fees by two per cent for domestic students and between two and four per cent for international students at their last meeting of 2025.
Protesters indicated further disruptions will continue unless UBC commits to divestment — but the university says it's already been communicating its progress on a "human rights framework" for responsible investment.
The review comes after a provincial post-secondary funding review was quietly shelved, and the federal government’s recently passed budget included plans to further cut the number of new international students across Canada by nearly 50 per cent.
Off the heels of a trip to Ottawa, President Benoit-Antoine Bacon told senators the federal budget wasn’t as bad for UBC as it could have been at their Nov. 19 meeting.
Nathan Herrington is running to be a staff representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. He is currently an international recruiter/adviser in the university’s international student initiative unit.
Mark Mac Lean is running to be a faculty representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. He is professor of teaching in the mathematics department, and previously served on the Board of Governors from 2020 to 2023 and as faculty association president from 2014 to 2017.
Students celebrating Sukkot on MacInnes Field had their sukkah structure taken down by UBC building operations, after campus security called the RCMP on them on Oct. 10.
The most contentious issue last Senate meeting, though, was a proposal to move the governance body’s meeting time back two hours next year. It was ultimately referred back to committee.
Two weeks before Canada recognized the State of Palestine, UBC was visited by Dr. Deirdre Nunan.
Over the summer, we took a lot of time to reflect on and pinpoint the exact challenges and issues facing The Ubyssey. The result of this work was the creation of our new strategic plan — "The Ubyssey, Reloaded."
The AMS, Students’ Union Okanagan (SUO) and Graduate Student Society (GSS) sent a common message to the Board of Governors on Sept. 24: UBC needs to do more to make student life more affordable.
President Bacon told the Senate that amid “challenging times” in “a complex year for higher education” the university is confident in its ability to “fully fund” its mission.
AMS Council passed a contentious revision to the student union’s surveillance policy, SR4, last night, which now permits staff to use body-worn cameras on duty.
As of June 20, one of the labour union Movement of United Professionals’ (MoveUP) AMS bargaining units includes a new component — 176 workers in the Food and Beverage (F&B) department, 114 of whom are students.
Several members of Sulong UBC were among the 100+ demonstrators gathered for a protest against the G7 leadership on National Indigenous Peoples Day on Saturday afternoon, taking over some of downtown Vancouver’s busiest streets to call attention to various anti-imperialist issues a week after world leaders met at the high-stakes summit in Kananaskis, Alberta.