scholarly journals Investigating Integration: The Geographies of the WUSC Student Refugee Program at the University of British Columbia

Refuge ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Robyn Plasterer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Post Secondary Education ◽  
Refugee Students ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

This paper examines the geographies of resettlement and integration with respect to the Student Refugee Program(SRP) of the World University Service of Canada (WUSC).As Canada’s only program to link resettlement with post-secondary education, the SRP makes manifest intriguing geographies that intersect international, national, and local scales. Th is study carried out the first qualitative research of the WUSC SRP at the University of British Columbia (UBC). It draws from good settlement practices,refugees’ existing skill sets, and refugees’ perspectives to examine how refugee students’ human capital can best contribute to Canadian integration.

scholarly journals “Education Changes the World”: The World University Service of Canada’s Student Refugee Program

Refuge ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Peterson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The World ◽  
Faculty And Staff ◽  
The University

This paper reflects on the origins and development of the Student Refugee Program of the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and its significance as a “transformational” force in the lives of individuals and communities. The WUSC Student Refugee Program is a unique effort involving students, faculty and staff at universities and colleges across Canada who work together to mobilize material and human resources in order to enable student refugees to resettle and complete their post-secondary studies in Canada. The author, who has worked closely with the Student Refugee Program at the University of British Columbia since the mid-1990s, first describes the operation of the Student Refugee Program, and then considers its significance in relation to issues of resettlement, gender equality, “brain drain” and transnationalism.

scholarly journals Implementation of an Open Science Instruction Program for Undergraduates

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Sharon Hanna ◽  
Jason Pither ◽  
Mathew Vis-Dunbar
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Open Science ◽  
First Year ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
The World ◽  
Attitudinal Survey ◽  
The University

The scientific, social, and economic advantages that accrue from Open Science (OS) practices—ways of doing research that emphasize reproducibility, transparency, and accessibility at all stages of the research cycle—are now widely recognized in nations around the world and by international bodies such as the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. However, program wide or coordinated instruction of undergraduate students in OS practices remains uncommon. At the University of British Columbia in Canada, we have started to develop a comprehensive undergraduate OS program that can be adapted to and woven into diverse subject curricula. We report on the context and planning of the pilot module of the program, “Open Science 101”, its implementation in first-year Biology in Fall 2019, and qualitative results of an attitudinal survey of students following their course.

scholarly journals Austrians-in-the-World. Conversations and Debates About Planning And Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Friedmann
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
China Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

John Friedmann has taught at MIT, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, UCLA, the University of Melbourne, the National University of Taiwan, and is currently an Honorary Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Throughout his life, he has been an advisor to governments in Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Mozambique, and China where he was appointed Honorary Foreign Advisor to the China Academy of Planning and Urban Design.

scholarly journals On Blind Men, Elephants, and Immersion Programs

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Jérémie Séror
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Post Secondary Education ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Immersion Programs ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
The University

On the 11th and 12th of May 2017, the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute at the University of Ottawa hosted the symposium: “Immersion in higher education: Where do we stand today?” This symposium was a wonderful opportunity to review the richness, complexity and plural dimensions associated to the concept of immersion. Indeed, the goal of the symposium was to not only mark the 10-year anniversary of the launch of the Régime d’immersion en français (RIF) at the University of Ottawa but also to bring together key stakeholders and specialists from various regions of Canada and the world to faire le point and review what has been accomplished in recent years when we refer to the application of content-based language teaching to the context of post-secondary education.

The University of British Columbia healthy beverage initiative: changing the beverage landscape on a large post-secondary campus

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie M Di Sebastiano ◽  
Sara Kozicky ◽  
Melissa Baker ◽  
Matt Dolf ◽  
Guy Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Research University ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Tap Water ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Purchasing Behaviour ◽  
The University

AbstractObjective:Environmental interventions are more effective at changing nutrition behaviour than educational campaigns alone. As part of their health promotion efforts, the University of British Columbia (UBC) developed the Healthy Beverage Initiative (HBI) to ultimately reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) on campus. We describe the development, implementation, preliminary evaluation and future of the HBI.Design:Naturalistic observation of environmental changes to induce behaviour change.Setting:Large urban research university campus.Participants:University community members and campus visitors.Results:Three main activities have been implemented since the initiation of the UBC HBI: renegotiation of the cold beverage agreement, a media campaign to promote tap water consumption and the removal of SSB from select retail locations on campus (residence dining hall). No significant loss of revenue was observed following the removal of SSB from a residence dining hall compared with similar locations. Compensatory purchasing behaviour of SSB was not observed at the closest retail locations where they were still available. After the removal of SSB, ~75% of survey respondents were not aware that the beverages had been removed.Conclusions:The implementation of the HBI has met little resistance from the UBC community. The removal of SSB from residence dining locations did not result in any significant revenue loss or compensatory purchasing behaviour. This suggests that environmental intervention initiatives appear to be a viable option that may reduce SSB consumption on post-secondary campuses.

Critical thinking or common sense?

2016 ◽  
Vol 179 (7) ◽  
pp. i-ii
Author(s):  
Vicki Adams
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The University

Vicki Adams grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and graduated with a degree in animal science from the University of British Columbia before being accepted into vet school in Saskatchewan. Her animal science background has given her the population perspective that is so important in epidemiology and she now runs her own consulting company, Vet Epi

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