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May 2015 Senate Roundup: Everybody Graduates!
Posted By Neal Yonson On May 12, 2015 @ 10:16 am In Asides,News | Comments Disabled
Senate Roundup, May 2015
The UBC Vancouver Senate will be holding their May meeting this Wednesday, which is their last until September. Here’s a rundown of some notable items on the Agenda [1].
This is the meeting at which Senate formally grants degrees and diplomas to all those students graduating this month. Congratulations if that’s you!
Education wants to revise the code of conduct for would-be teachers in the Bachelor of Education program. As per the senate materials, “The policy clarifies that the actions of teacher candidates are under scrutiny not just in the classroom, but outside of it as well.” There’s a long list of dos and don’ts but shall we cut to the chase and assume this is mostly about the social media clauses?
Don’t be that teacher exchanging snaps with your students, mmmkay?
Did you know that UBC has a policy which allows the Senate Admissions Committee to adjust the admissions averages of incoming high school students based on where they originate from? They do: read more about it here [2]. When it was introduced in 2010, all students from Alberta got 2% added onto their averages when being assessed for admission to UBC. In 2014 that adjustment was up to 4%. Good news for all the youth who will no doubt be desperate to flee New Albertastan.
The university endowment’s current spend rate is 3.5%, so this represents a $100,000 contribution. Stephen Toope and his wife did something similar in 2010 [3] (page 18 of the PDF).
Senate has a number of committees and sub-committees. Since the May meeting is the last of the year, they all submit reports summarizing their activities for the year. Here are the highlights:
Want to enrol in an engineering degree in Electrical Energy Systems, Nanotechnology and Microsystems, or Software Engineering? Too bad. “In part as a result of issues identified by a recent accreditation site visit, these options will no longer be accepting students.”
Want to enrol in a Global Supply Chain and Logistics Management program? Good news! Sauder is starting “a specialized joint exchange program between the Sauder School of Business (UBC), Copenhagen Business School (CBS), and Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen (CUHKSZ).”
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[1] Agenda: http://senate.ubc.ca/sites/senate.ubc.ca/files/downloads/20150513%20Vancouver%20Senate%20Materials.pdf
[2] read more about it here: http://ubcinsiders.ca/2010/01/senate-enacts-new-admissions-policy-alberta-students-get-2-bump/
[3] did something similar in 2010: http://senate.ubc.ca/sites/senate.ubc.ca/files/downloads/va_minutes_march3_2010.pdf
[4] move to broad based admissions: http://ubyssey.ca/features/feature-broad-based-admissions/
[5] Image: http://ubcinsiders.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Senate-Appeals-Chart.png
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