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Sunday, February 23, 2020

VPFO Pink Shirt Day 2019/20 Staff Video

To capture the spirit of inclusion, in 2019 we worked with our partners at UBC Studios to create a video that captures some of the…
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Students, faculty and staff get Ranger Ready in The Nest

On February 13, 2020 the AMS Student Nest was transformed into the UBC Emergency Ranger Station, where the Emergency Management team helped the UBC community…
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Legal Opinion Confirms the Way Forward to Divestment

On Dec. 5, 2019, the Board of Governors formally directed VP Finance and UBC Counsel to lay out a pathway to full divestment of the…
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Statement on passing of Robert H. Lee

It is with deep sadness and a great sense of loss that we learned of the passing of Dr. Robert (Bob) H. Lee, CM, OBC,…
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Monday, February 17, 2020

Meghan Kerr joins Infrastructure Development as Construction Document Administrator with Project & Planning Business Systems

As the new Construction Document Administrator, Meghan will support Project Services in ensuring there is clear and consistent document management between the Project Managers and…
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

2019/2020 Year End Schedule Now Available

The university's fiscal year end of March 31, 2020, is fast approaching, and similar to prior years UBC's financial teams have collaborated on a schedule…
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020

T4/T4A statements are now available online

UBC issues tax slips online as PDFs that are identical to the printed form, and are accepted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) when filing…
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Two new Associate Project Managers join Infrastructure Development with Project Services

Sarah Buck joins UBC from Penfolds Roofing & Solar where she held several positions; starting out as a Project Coordinator and working her way up…
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Thursday, February 6, 2020

Pink Shirt Day at the VPFO: February 26

This year, Pink Shirt Day is February 26 and the VPFO will be celebrating diversity and inclusion in our portfolio with cake and coffee events…
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Thursday, February 6, 2020

Shannon Boychuk joins Safety & Risk Services in the position of Manager, Insurance & Loss Prevention

Shannon will be responsible for the management of the university’s comprehensive insurance portfolio and will act as the leader and key expert with respect to…
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