On Wednesday morning, UBC’s Board of Governors met in-person on the UBC Okanagan campus for the first time in three years to discuss the Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence (ARIE) Task Force’s recommendations and approve the terms of reference for Campus Vision 2050.
President Santa Ono and Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal of UBC Okanagan Lesley Cormack made the announcement in a broadcast message earlier today.
Councillors approved the 2022/23 budget and discussed the future of the Nest’s mask mandate at last night’s 6.5 hour-long AMS Council meeting.
UBC will have a new interim director of Campus Security starting June 20, almost two months after the discovery of inflammatory tweets on the former director’s now-deleted Twitter account.
After a rocky opening four years ago, the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) is fully operational, according to staff and partners.
Dr. Murali Chandrashekaran, UBC’s first-ever vice-provost international (VPI), will not seek reappointment for a second term. He will complete his term on August 31.
Dr. Arig al Shaibah will serve as UBC’s new associate vice-president (AVP) Equity and Inclusion starting July 1.
Musqueam hosted a naming ceremony Tuesday afternoon to formally open the new tə šxʷhəleləm̓s tə k̓ʷaƛ̓kʷəʔaʔɬ residence area.
On April 22, 2022, the task force published its 296-page final report which included 54 recommendations from its six committees representing equity-deserving groups (Indigenous people, Black people and people of colour) and work and study constituencies (students, faculty and staff).
On Wednesday, AMS execs and councillors met in the Michael Kingsmill forum to discuss a new subsidy for constituency events and the 2022/23 budget. They also voted to appoint a new student senator-at-large.
According to University RCMP Cpl. Ian Sim, three elementary school students were struck by a car that sped off the road at the roundabout in the Botanical Garden parking lot.
Dr. John Gilbert, chair of the Senate Tributes Committee, announced the recommendation of the degree’s rescission in a statement posted on the UBC News website earlier this evening, nearly a year after the matter emerged.
At the meeting, senators sent a proposed change to the Allard School of Law admissions process back to the faculty for further consideration and approved an pathway for Indigenous applicants into the faculty of dentistry.
The Community Making and Black Flourishing Through the Scarborough Charter symposium — which was co-hosted by UBC and SFU — closed out the universities’ two-day Inter-Institutional Forum of the Scarborough National Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education.
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