The SkyTrain to UBC seems to be a lower priority on the TransLink Mayor’s council 10-year action plan, but the AMS and UBC remain optimistic about progress on the project.
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Black members of UBC’s Faculty of Medicine gathered on Friday, February 17 to share their diverse personal stories and discuss the future of the significantly unrepresentative field of medicine.
Voting opens March 6.
UBC's Vancouver Senate met Wednesday night to discuss international agreements, vote on approving new courses and appoint senators to take over responsibilities after the removal of a student senator.
First introduced by the Board of Governors in 2012, HAP was created after a consultation showed housing and affordability were of highest concern for students, faculty and staff.
According to an 11:30 a.m. media release, University RCMP received a report of a man following a group of walkers and another of a man “performing an indecent act” on Tuesday, February 14.
Dr. Monica Good will take students on an exchange program to Mexico this summer. The exchange will take place in the Yucatan peninsula from August 7–27 and will provide students an opportunity to learn and engage with Mayan language and culture.
In what has become an annual tradition, we're asking students to fill out this anonymous survey to learn how they feel about the current representatives and what issues they care about.
AMS Council voted against a push to combine two referendum items on this year’s AMS Elections ballot to include both a general student fee increase to the AMS/GSS Health & Dental Plan to maintain current levels of coverage and a fee increase to include gender-affirming care in the plan.
In the last two years, there has been a significant increase in claims for mental health counselling sessions which has led to the depletion of the reserve at an exponential rate.
Posters have been banned since 2019 due to the waste generated from posters, the financial resources they required and the time-consuming efforts they necessitated to ensure elections regulations were not violated.
In November 2022, UBC presented to the Board of Governors Employee Relations Committee a significant change to the initiative – the removal of faculty from the purview of the program.
Eight students reported a fraudulent Ponderosa sublet to Student Housing this term. Students affected lost deposits between $700 to $1,700 trying to secure nonexistent studios in Maple or Arbutus House.
Each mentee will meet their mentor for at least three meetings spaced evenly throughout the term to discuss obstacles, questions, seek assistance and build an organic connection.
As of January 2022, many food and beverage establishments on campus began charging a 25 cent fee for single-use coffee cups and a 15 cent fee for single-use paper bags as part of the Zero Waste Food Ware Strategy.