Theological colleges Saint Mark's College, Regent College and Vancouver School of Theology are affiliated with UBC, their students are AMS members and each college has a seat on AMS Council, but affiliate college students are often left out of AMS initiatives.
Taus Noor was named to the prestigious list for his work co-founding Gaze along with Motasim Bin Rahman.
A year after launch, the resource has been used over 10,000 times by just over 3,000 university students across the province.
The Board of Governors discussed a proposal to combine UBC’s fossil fuel-free fund, the Sustainable Future Pool, with the Main Endowment Fund — a change that would leave donors without a fully-sustainable investment option.
The new meetings, held every other Monday between 7:00pm and 8:00pm over Zoom, are inclusive of all recovery pathways and allow women and gender diverse students to express themselves more freely while sharing their recovery journeys.
Following a surge in COVID-19 cases in India and Pakistan, the Canadian government implemented flight bans on travel between Canada and these countries at the end of April for 30 days.
The 2021 federal and provincial budgets promise new investments in and support for post-secondary students in economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, some grad students feel they’ve been overlooked.
While the AMS saw privacy breaches through its student engagement platform CampusBase last year, Evans said students’ information is safe.
On Sunday evening, the site, studentaidbc.ca, was replaced with a black screen with green text, seeming to be links to a group of hackers’ profiles on a Persian-language webpage.
The CUS told students in an April email that the society had cut ties with Flurrish back in December, losing $20,160 in the process.
The hearing, intended to take place yesterday and today, has been tentatively rescheduled for late July due to Proctorio’s new filings and requests.
AMS Council ran for over four hours on Wednesday night. Here’s a recap of what you might have missed at the jam-packed meeting.
In an email sent to students on April 27, the Go Global team wrote that the decision was made based on advice and guidelines from the BC CDC, Global Affairs Canada and UBC’s Student Safety Abroad Policy.
Since 2019, the organization has focused on providing free menstrual products on campus, with a little help from the AMS on the funding front.
The project, led by the UBC Black Caucus with funding from the IBPOC Connections initiative in the Equity & Inclusion Office, ran for the month of March.