Halfway into her term, Yee has been working on advocating for students in pandemic response and recovery while making slower progress on backburner goals of addressing anti-racism and sexual assault prevention.
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AMS VP External Kalith Nanayakkara’s term has been altered by a pandemic, a surprise provincial election and now a conflict of interest review.
Halfway through his term, Evans has made progress on all three issues, but not without criticism from students around his methods.
AMS VP Administration Sylvester Mensah Jr has found ways to shift student engagement online, but COVID-19 has caused some roadblocks.
AMS Council met on Wednesday night for its last meeting of 2020 to discuss next year’s elections, student services usage this term and the society’s financial statements from 2019/20.
COVID-19 has intensified existing inequities for disabled graduate students in academia. Haley Branch wants to change that.
Iranian-Swedish medical researcher Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali was sentenced to death in October 2017 on disputed charges of espionage.
UBC alumna Loujain al-Hathloul’s case has been referred to a terrorism court in Saudi Arabia after she protested the country’s now-repealed ban on women driving.
As winter break approaches, rising COVID-19 cases are causing many students to ask if they will spend the holidays alone.
Announced yesterday in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fall economic update, the move will cost Ottawa $329.4 million and will affect up to 1.4 million students.
Dr. Benjamin Cheung, a psychology lecturer, announced in a tweet that he would be ending classes a week early for all his students.
While the AMS has heard of a potential Chegg trap following the accusations, the course instructor denied those claims.
The decision comes as Student Housing and Community Services (SHCS), which has a separate budget from UBC, is projecting a deficit of $80 to $90 million, or a 40 per cent loss of revenue, for the 2020/21 fiscal year as a result of COVID-19.
Postmedia published UBC op-eds and coverage in September without disclosing that they were part of a $10,000 to $15,000 advertising deal with the university.
The recommendations intend to create ways for students to access information about elections and executive roles, and for the society to reduce the elections timeline, to increase executive salaries and to reach out to equity-seeking communities.