The new policy limits digital assessment tools' cost to 12 per cent of the per credit tuition fee, and says that digital assessments can be used for only up to 20 per cent of their final grade.
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UBC Media Relations told The Ubyssey that the event had been postponed “pending a safety and security review, per UBC policies.”
Following an assessment, UBC will create an action plan and submit an application to three federal research councils to be recognized as a Dimensions institution.
A tweet about the policy gained more than ten thousand likes and a thousand retweets earlier this month with users expressing concern with financial inequity in access to learning materials.
The AMS quietly released a CampusBase privacy impact assessment in December, a month and a half after execs promised to do so at the society’s annual general meeting in October.
The AMS has still not released its internal privacy assessment of the new clubs management system.
Holmes and Hendricks said guiding principles were decided on over a fixed policy to signify the new requirements to publishers and encourage more discussion at the Senate about the financial burdens purchasing assessment materials can have on students.
As textbook pricing is already a well-established affordability issue for students, the conversation is now being expanded to include the cost of online assessment materials.
High school students will soon be required to write two provincial exams instead of five as a part of a new curriculum being instituted in British Columbia. UBC said this change will probably not have a major impact on admissions.
According to Devon Campbell, the environmental committee leader of the VOC, the proposed resort would severely impact mountain goat and deer habitats, increase traffic on the Whistler highway and deplete up to 22 per cent of the groundwater.
Over the next two years, the GSS will be reexamining its involvement with the AMS for a 2018 referendum.