AMS President Eshana Bhangu announced the policy change at the March 29 AMS Council meeting, adding that UBC staff members seeking help from the AMS Food Bank will now be diverted to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
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March marks the one year anniversary of UBC's Student Affordability Task Force report. The Student Affordability Task Force’s (SATF) top priorities in its second year will include developing more tools to help students navigate rising tuition and living costs.
On April 12, AMS Council approved a five-year strategic plan calling for accessible services and student well-being and a series of governance changes.
The Disability Affinity Group (DAG) says UBC did not respond to their requests to include Disabled people and experts in Disability Justice in developing the terms of reference for UBC’s Accessibility Committee.
SWAH 101 and 102 will introduce students to the language, but also to Swahili’s broader cultural significance.
The motion was to continue the 2022/23 base budget allocation, release $800,000 for food security initiatives and defer the 2023/24 budget.
UBC plans to expand resources for its former youth in care students following the BC government’s announcements that there will no longer be age restrictions on access to the provincial tuition waiver for former youth in care.
Six years ago the AMS eliminated its Oversight Committee, a committee tasked with holding executives accountable. Now, AMS Council has voted to bring an oversight committee back, in a different form.
Transgender Day of Visibility is on March 31. This year, students, faculty and staff are celebrating the recent passing of a gender-affirming healthcare expansion. But students and organizations, like the Trans Coalition, who championed the healthcare expansion say that support for the Trans community shouldn't stop there.
Last night, AMS councillors met to create a new executive oversight committee and discussed food security services on campus.
UBC plans to add 3300 beds to on-campus housing in the next ten years, but the AMS says that this is not enough to meet growing student numbers.
The AMS will continue to use CampusBase as the platform for club operations, with a planned launch of a help centre for club members set for April 2023.
This year saw the second highest voter turnout in AMS Elections history, which the AMS Elections Committee and students attributed to several factors, including heavy advertising, polling stations and referenda items.
The AMS has had a longstanding issue with slow reimbursement payments to club and constituency executives, worsened in recent months by a transition to a new financial system and personnel turnover in November 2022.
The march was organized as a call for UBC to divest from companies that are complicit in human rights violations.