This year, 10,329 students voted in AMS elections — the highest turnout in three years.
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UBC will allow students from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus to defer their tuition amid the ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe.
Cheers erupted in Michael Kingsmill Forum last night at around 9:40 p.m. when AMS Council voted ‘yes’ to urge the university to divest from companies involved in or complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.
Notably, BCCDC data only includes cases recorded via publicly-funded PCR tests, which are only available to immunocompromised or unvaccinated individuals.
Eaton said that though the Senate has taken strides to increase meeting transparency and accessibility in years past, there is always room for improvement.
Policies I-17 and I-18 outline administrative procedures and resources available when sexualized violence or bullying and harassment occurs. The policies were first passed in 2019.
VP HR Marcia Buchholz announced that, effective April 2022, the CWA will function in a centralized location to improve accessibility resources in the workplace.
From March 11 to 17, the UBC neighbourhood recorded just three new cases of COVID-19, down from seven cases last week, however, these are just cases recorded on PCR tests.
UBC announced the winners of the inaugural Envisioning Equality Art Project, aimed at making UBC more gender-inclusive last week.
The university’s rapid testing distribution sites outside of the bookstore and in Ponderosa Commons will be closing at 5 p.m. today for an undetermined length of time.
Several community members want the AMS to restore the neglected Goddess of Democracy statue located between Brock Hall and the Nest.
Through UBC Health Student Services, individuals can book “goal-oriented” counselling appointments which focus on “strengths and identifying helpful perspectives and/or strategies,” according to the services’ website.
UBC Vancouver Senate met last night to discuss the discontinuation of the university’s rapid testing program and an emergency motion to halt all academic relations with Russian organizations.
Current Arts Dean Gage Averill has been appointed to serve as the provost and vice-president academic pro tem for UBC Vancouver.
The caucus — composed of all eighteen student senators in the Vancouver Senate — hope the new website will increase the governing body’s transparency and awareness.