AMS Council met on Wednesday night for its last meeting of 2020 to discuss next year’s elections, student services usage this term and the society’s financial statements from 2019/20.
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COVID-19 has intensified existing inequities for disabled graduate students in academia. Haley Branch wants to change that.
Iranian-Swedish medical researcher Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali was sentenced to death in October 2017 on disputed charges of espionage.
UBC alumna Loujain al-Hathloul’s case has been referred to a terrorism court in Saudi Arabia after she protested the country’s now-repealed ban on women driving.
As winter break approaches, rising COVID-19 cases are causing many students to ask if they will spend the holidays alone.
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Dr. Benjamin Cheung, a psychology lecturer, announced in a tweet that he would be ending classes a week early for all his students.
While the AMS has heard of a potential Chegg trap following the accusations, the course instructor denied those claims.
The decision comes as Student Housing and Community Services (SHCS), which has a separate budget from UBC, is projecting a deficit of $80 to $90 million, or a 40 per cent loss of revenue, for the 2020/21 fiscal year as a result of COVID-19.
Postmedia published UBC op-eds and coverage in September without disclosing that they were part of a $10,000 to $15,000 advertising deal with the university.
The recommendations intend to create ways for students to access information about elections and executive roles, and for the society to reduce the elections timeline, to increase executive salaries and to reach out to equity-seeking communities.
The branch is part of UBC’s veteran-friendly campus initiative to make campus more welcoming to veterans and to help them transition back to civilian life.
On November 12, 2020, VP Finance & Operations Peter Smailes sent an email to students, informing them that the review would be conducted by Canadian law firm Rubin Thomlinson LLP, more than a month after Ono requested the review be completed.
The UBC Okanagan Senate has approved a week-long extension of winter break, delaying the start of winter term two.
AMS Council met last night over Zoom to discuss the new ethics and accountability committee, VP External Kalith Nanayakkara’s apparent conflict of interest and recent allegations of cheating in MATH 100.