Sabine Villaroman

The Equity and Inclusion Office (EIO) is currently working on a project to make washrooms more inclusive at both UBC’s campuses, in line with the university’s broad commitment to inclusion.

UBC is once again planning to build a basketball court in the Wesbrook Place neighbourhood after it abruptly withdrew the project application last November.

On November 17, the AMS launched its first annual Student Experience Survey (SES) in order to better understand how to improve its services for students.

A sensory room is an area with reduced lighting and sound that individuals can use when they feel overstimulated, specifically allowing them to reduce stress.

As chief student health officer, Hassam will oversee student health services and implement health-related strategies in UBC’s strategic plans.

The Asian Canadian Research Engagement Centre intends to bring together resources to address the problem of anti-Asian racism.

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.

Two ASL courses, ASL 100 and ASL 101, under the Department of Linguistics, will be taught by Nigel Howard, the interpreter for Dr. Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix at the provincial COVID-19 briefings over the past months.

In a seismic resilience plan, MOA was identified as having a very high level of seismic risk: the building’s collapse would cause the highest number of fatalities of any building on campus.

The Association of Administrative and Professional Staff (AAPS) and UBC have negotiated a tentative new collective agreement, effective until June 30, 2022.

Influenced by CareMongering-TO and Toronto/Tkaronto Mutual Aid, the demands are organized into the five key pillars of “decolonization,” “healthcare for all,” “no work obligations,” “public services for all,” and “solidarity not policing.”

The development for the campaign at UBC began in 2014 and 2015 after the university proposed to increase rents for student housing by 20 per cent.

Ten student associations of universities across the province, including the AMS and GSS of UBC, signed the letter to represent a combined total of over 180,000 individuals.

Suedfeld has been particularly fascinated by the psychological effects that challenging and dangerous situations have on individuals, conducting research on a range of extreme environments.