Faculty, staff and students at UBC are invited to an open forum to learn about changes to the end-of-course student surveys that will be implemented in the Fall of 2021.
As we approach the middle of winter term 2, many faculty will be considering additional ways to check in on the learning and wellbeing of their students.
We are writing to provide an update to the UBC Vancouver community regarding the use of remote proctoring software at UBC, including Proctorio.
Following an external review of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in January 2020, a response has been received from the Interim Director of the Institute and the Board of Trustees. This response has gone to the Research Committee of the Senate and it will be on the Senate agenda in January 2021.
Some UBC faculty members have informed us they will join the Scholar Strike for Black Lives Canada activities on September 9th and 10th.
Dr. Carolina Tropini, Assistant Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has been named as the winner of this year’s Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Scholars Award in the field of Engineering.
Like most universities across the world, UBC is adapting to address the requirements of online teaching and learning, and adopting new tools and practices at scale to assist with that challenging transition: Proctorio is just one of those tools.
Professor Catherine Dauvergne is stepping down from her role as Dean of the Peter A. Allard School of Law to join Simon Fraser University as their Vice-President, Academic and Provost.
UBC’s CIC – a public-private collaboration between UBC and Amazon – is working to improve understanding of COVID-19 by identifying all known coronavirus species through re-analyzing 5,750,000 GB of public RNA sequencing data.
Applications are invited from tenured faculty for the position of Academic Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI). The deadline for applications is June 22, 2020.
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