For this year’s Imagine Day, UBC Social Justice Centre (SJC) plans to revamp an old project to create and distribute an alternative orientation booklet that is “radical, decolonial, and anti-oppressive.”
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UBC is not considering banning student-teacher relationships or sharing the full results of the investigation on former creative writing Chair Steven Galloway with the complainant — one day after Joanna Birenbaum, the legal counsel of the main complainant (MC) against him, published an open letter calling for both.
The main complainant in the case against former UBC creative writing Chair Steven Galloway is calling on the university to ban student-teacher relationships, after Galloway spoke out about his experiences on national media outlets.
The blue phones were put in place as a response to emergency situations. However, data from campus security reports suggests that many students may not be using these phones for their original purpose.
UBC alumna Morrell Andrews, who graduated in 2017 with a degree in international relations, is leading independent consultation sessions across Canada that will contribute to the country’s first-ever youth policy.
Saudi Arabian students on government-funded scholarship can now extend their stay until September 22, despite being previously ordered to leave Canada by August 31 due to a diplomatic fallout between the two countries.
In early July, the provincial government assembled a research committee to explore the details of implementing a basic income program. One month into the initiative, committee Chair and UBC’s economics professor David Green chatted with The Ubyssey about the research process and the program’s potential application for students.
On August 1, UBC Food Services launched the “Straw Suck” campaign to eliminate single-use plastic straws and cutlery from all residence dining halls and food establishments owned and operated by the service.
UBC’s Equity and Inclusion office has made changes to the upcoming Pride installation after reviewing feedback from the campus community. The timeline for the design’s unveiling is still set for early September.
The AMS has released the report for this year’s Academic Experience Survey (AES), which outlines 27 recommendations for the society to follow in response to the survey’s results.
UBC’s faculty of medicine issued a statement today on the potential forced withdrawal of 20 residents and 24 clinical fellows within the faculty, which forms a sizable chunk of the roughly 280 incoming and current Saudi students at UBC.
UBC alumna and woman’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul remains detained in her native Saudi Arabia despite public calls for her release by the Canadian federal government, which contributed to an escalating diplomatic spat with the Saudi government.
UBC has released a statement encouraging its Saudi Arabian students to contact enrolment services, following a diplomatic spat that has caused the kingdom to order all 16,000 of its students in Canada to come home.
A report endorsed by 14 post-secondary student unions is calling on the BC government to adopt a two per cent cap on international tuition fees across the province, which is home to roughly one third of all international students in Canada.
The Bangladeshi Students’ Association (BSA) hosted a march and vigil at UBC on Monday night to show their solidarity with youth in Dhaka, Bangladesh who are currently protesting for safer roads.