Updates, news and stories

External review of Campus Security

A message from Peter Smailes, Vice-President, Finance & Operations

Language, identities, and ideologies among French-speaking immigrants in Canada

Call for proposals to the Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations Fund

  The Aspire-2040 Learning Transformations (ALT-2040) Fund's main goal is to transform student learning at UBC Okanagan. ALT-2040 supports curriculum change, innovative teaching practices and learning environment enhancement. The fund enables faculty members to make strategic changes within existing, or implement new, undergraduate and graduate academic programs that are more flexible, interdisciplinary, experiential and/or collaborative.  Faculty members are invited to submit proposals by January 15, 2021.

Have your say in UBC Okanagan’s Transportation Plan

What’s happening?Provide feedback on a proposed site amendment to the UBC Okanagan Transportation Plan to support future campus growth, community wellbeing, and climate action. Your input will help shape strategies that will make it more convenient, affordable and sustainable to get to, from and around campus.How you can participate

COVID-19: Update on Public Health Orders

A message from Peter Smailes, Vice-President, Finance & Operations; Rae Ann Aldridge, Executive Director, Safety & Risk Services

Online supports for COVID-19 stress are there—but Canadians aren’t accessing them

Building resilience around the Museum of Anthropology’s irreplaceable collection

Space to innovate

Apply for a Climate Education Grant

  On December 5, 2019, the President and Board of Governors declared a climate emergency, driven by student leadership at UBC. Supported by $50,000 in one-time Climate Action funding, the Climate Education Grant program aims to quickly improve the depth and delivery of climate change content in existing courses.  

30-second bio: Amber Shilling

Amber Shilling supports Indigenous research across UBC through relationships, facilitation, and education. She admires humility in others, as a critical part of the learning process to make mistakes, correct actions, and change things for the better.

An update on UBC Okanagan’s response to COVID-19

A message from Shelley Kayfish, Director, Campus Operations and Risk Management, Co-chair, UBC Okanagan Resumption Planning and Coordination Committee; Michael Burgess, Associate Provost, Strategy, UBC Okanagan, Co-chair, UBC Okanagan Resumption Planning and Coordination Committee.