The letter highlights the urgency of providing housing as part of preparatory public health measures before the expected second wave of COVID-19 hits BC.
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The AMS passed its Sustainable Action Plan after a year of work, but the Indigenous Coordination section was notably missing.
“This is part of a broader effort that we’ve been making at the university to normalize and socialize the use of pronouns amongst our community members,” she said.
Bates did not comment on the summer term but said that the brainstorming for how this would look in the fall term — which many faculties have announced will be online — is underway.
As BC begins its plan to phase out of physical distancing restrictions, The Ubyssey spoke to four businesses about how they’ve been adapting — and hurting — during the pandemic.
Though many constituency elections took place earlier this spring, no new student senators have emerged from the arts, forestry or dentistry.
On May 6, the BC government announced that it would be shifting the province back into some sense of normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic in four phases. Here’s how the phases will look at UBC moving forward.
Initial proposals for an interdisciplinary program began last year. Now, students who begin pursuing this major could graduate with a BA in interdisciplinary religious studies as early as May 2022.
The model aims to improve the access and delivery of health and well-being services to UBC students by expanding the health care space available on campus.
Standing at around 100,000 square feet, this project is a combined effort by the AMS and UBC Athletics and Recreation.
In an open letter directed to Kim Kiloh, director of the UBC Centre for Student Involvement & Careers, student group UBC The Enlightenment of Hong Kong urged UBC to take down the May 8 listing from the HKPF.
With students taking online classes and social distancing in full force, UBC students are now unable to access campus resources and activities paid for in their AMS incidental fees.
Students are particularly prone to housing insecurity, with many looking for new housing as winter semester comes to a close. The pandemic is only intensifying the instability.
The AMS will be pushing its scheduled reopening of the Nest by 24 hours, from Tuesday, May 19 to Wednesday, May 20.
Today’s 30-minute open session of the Board of Governors (BoG) meeting was little more than a brief summary of UBC’s response to COVID-19 so far.