Associate Professor Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry will be stepping down from her Board of Governors (BoG) seat as of June 30, 2018. As one of two UBC Vancouver faculty representatives, Chaudhry has been serving on BoG since March 2017 for a term that was supposed to end in February 2020.
“It won’t shut down the organization by any means, but it will determine whether or not we have the funds to buy things that are integral to us opening and us running a café.”
“I wake up today a mother of three children and I realize I might have something to say about reconciliation. So I wanted to share my story with you and what it means.”
There were 20 reported incidents of theft from parked vehicles in 2017 — nine more than the previous year according to the 2017 Campus Security Report.
Associate Professor Dr. Ayesha Chaudhry will be stepping down from her Board of Governors (BoG) seat as of June 30, 2018. As one of two UBC Vancouver faculty representatives, Chaudhry has been serving on BoG since March 2017 for a term that was supposed to end in February 2020.
“It won’t shut down the organization by any means, but it will determine whether or not we have the funds to buy things that are integral to us opening and us running a café.”
“I wake up today a mother of three children and I realize I might have something to say about reconciliation. So I wanted to share my story with you and what it means.”
There were 20 reported incidents of theft from parked vehicles in 2017 — nine more than the previous year according to the 2017 Campus Security Report.
In an interview with The Ubyssey, VP External Relations Philip Steenkamp said the university is willing to contribute land, increase on-campus development charges, provide conventional financial funding or a mix of all three. Accordingly, it will not affect funding related to “UBC’s academic mission.”
“Frankly speaking, if we implemented all their solutions, we wouldn’t have this problem.”
Pan-Asian restaurant Bao Down expects to open their UBC location within two months —after it was expected to launch along with other food outlets along University Boulevard in fall of 2017.
A survey run by The Ubyssey indicates that while most UBC students are average users of alcohol and other substances, a small percentage are using them to excess — sometimes as a coping mechanism for school-related stress.
The Shadow isn’t the only piece that ended up costing more than expected. Meeting minutes from the University Art Committee show that over the course of last year, estimated project costs for projects around campus consistently grow well beyond their estimates.
UBC is working to establish a separate trust, which will ideally let the university invest hugely in their own student housing without the caps of provincial borrowing. After working for years to come up with alternative funding solutions without real success, this may finally allow the university to fund an accelerated construction of student residences.
After an unusually polarizing and public election, faculty have elected a UBC Okanagan professor to the UBC Faculty Association for the second time in its history.
On Monday, UBC accidentally invited all of its 31,000 prospective undergraduate applicants to join Jumpstart — including those who had their applications rejected.
In conjunction with the opening of the new Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC), UBC President Santa Ono apologized yesterday for the university’s institutionalized support of the injustices that happened to Indigenous people in residential schools.
The UBC Neuroscience Club is putting forward a petition and a survey to assess the student’s desire for a new “comprehensive undergraduate neuroscience major.”
After a trial period that spanned the last two weeks, Sekhon was acquitted because the Crown could not provide evidence “beyond a reasonable doubt” required for a conviction.