The AMS’s annual Academic Experience Survey has polled graduate students since 2017, but 2019 marks the first year where graduate student data was separated from undergraduate data in the report released in collaboration with research firm Insights West.
Murray served a term as a BC Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) before winning a Liberal seat on Parliament Hill in 2008, a seat she’s held ever since.
Replacing interim VP Students Andrew Parr, Dr. Ainsley Carry is ready to tackle the VP’s vast portfolio and the unique issues facing UBC.
On Friday, September 6, UBC hosted UBC Pride which featured resource booths, activities and performances. Before the event took place, many UBC community members expressed cynicism, considering the university’s recent track record with the LGBTQIA2S+ community. We sent a few writers to attend the events and share their thoughts.
Students continue to lack confidence in how the AMS spends student fees, but view the society favourably. Despite being generally less financially secure, students are satisfied overall with their university experience.
With 4 hours, 10 paper colours and a 2,000-crane goal, a handful of students set out to create a hanging origami installation for next week’s UBC Pride. However, the ally-dominated event revealed blanks left uncoloured by the very community it advocates for.
Counselling services will use the facility for three to five years until it moves to a permanent building that development plans call an “Integrated Health Services (IHS) centre.”
Compared to the fiery clashes of AMS debates, the four hopefuls — Simon de Weerdt, Jen McCutcheon, Madison Moore and Sung Yun Wong — struggled to find areas where they disagreed.
McPhee wrote that he sat next to the two individuals earlier that day and later noticed them taking photos of him and his colleague. When he approached them to ask them to stop, they accused him of theft.
The director, who is EAA’s only elected representative at the regional level, sits on the Metro Vancouver Board of Directors and the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation which oversees TransLink.
Effective this September, the policy describes concessions instructors or advising offices can give, such as an alternate time to take a missed test or an assignment deadline extension.
Many instructors use and support Turnitin because it enforces academic integrity, but some are concerned that it compromises students’ privacy by storing personal information and intellectual property.
Incumbents Holmes and Pang were excited to continue their work in the Senate.
Riley Ty is running for senator-at-large on a campaign of Senate review and student advocacy on affordable educational resources and implementing a fall reading break.
He offered few concrete solutions in his interview aside from consulting with students on social media.