This webinar featured panelists Dr. Maydianne Andrade, Professor; President, Canadian Black Scientists Network; Co-Chair, Toronto Initiative for Diversity & Excellence; Special Advisor to the Dean, Inclusive Recruitment & Equity Education, University of Toronto Scarborough, Dr.Namandjé Bumpus, E.K. Marshall and Thomas H. Maren Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Dr. Emmanuel Osei, MITACS & Michael Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UBC.
The talk was followed by a moderated Q&A. Click the link below to watch the recording.
Places throughout the world are facing multiple challenges: climate change, the health and economic insecurities provoked by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the absence of equity, diversity, and inclusion, to name just a few. In the context of such challenges, what do their economic development futures look like? And how can those futures be shaped by citizens, businesses, universities, and governments? What strategies and policies are required to reimagine our economic development pathways over the next 20 years?
This webinar brought together invited speakers to reflect on these questions in three very different contexts, from Europe, North America and South America. The speakers reflected on these experiences and challenges, shared their thinking about the economic development futures they envisage over the next 20 years, and considered what is required for these visions to be realized.
With an increasing need for continued education among those looking to build their knowledge in high-demand fields, UBC Okanagan has launched two micro-credential programs as part of its career and personal education portfolio. The first of their kind at UBCO, the two new micro-credentials will focus on the fields of technical communication and industrial automation.
The new credentials are part of British Columbia’s $4 million in funding for similar initiatives across the province. Both programs are delivered online and credentials will be issued as a non-credit Letter of Proficiency. Learners will receive a traditional paper copy of the credential as well as a digital badge that can be shared on their professional social media profiles. . .
The Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic and UBC Okanagan Library are pleased to announce the 2020/21 OER Grant-funded projects as part of our ongoing commitment to flexible and open learning.
The UBC Okanagan Open Educational Resources Grant pilot program provides funding and support for UBC Okanagan faculty to adapt or create open educational resources (OER). OERs are free teaching and learning materials available to students with an open license that allows for their reuse, revision, and redistribution. Through this funding, a wide range of OERs are being developed that will provide UBC Okanagan students with accessible education resources that will improve their learning experience and potentially offer significant cost savings.
Funded projects include open textbooks, open lab manuals and open question banks. Visit provost.ok.ubc.ca/awards-funding/oer for a full list of funded projects or to learn more about OER.
In part two of this three-part series discussing systemic racism in science, panelists Elder Albert Marshall, Mi’kmaw Nation; Dr. Jeannette Armstrong, Canada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy, UBC Okanagan; and Aaron Prosper, graduate student, UPEI & project manager of the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Nation Cancer Care Strategy, will lead a discussion on Indigenous Perspectives and Science and Systemic Racism. The talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A.
The UBC Okanagan Library is presenting a unique online author event celebrating the diversity of literature created by and for Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer people. This event features writers and creators T’áncháy Redvers and Joshua Whitehead in conversation.
Join the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic, UBC Okanagan and the Office of the Vice-President, Health (UBC Health) for a webinar that will spark conversation between UBC and BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner on the collection of disaggregated data to advance human rights.
Date: Thursday, November 26, 2020 Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 am PST | 12:00 – 1:30 pm EST Format: Webinar; the conversation will be followed by a moderated Q&A. Cost: Free, registration is required
This is the first of a three-part series. The first part features institutional responses; the second will feature indigenous scientists; the third will feature Black scientists.
In the world of science, systemic racism manifests itself in many ways. Addressing systemic racism therefore involves interrogating the fundamental assumptions about what constitutes excellence in scientific scholarship, how the criteria for such excellence is determined, pursued and validated, and how the major institutions support the pursuit of excellence. The current discussions on systemic racism have shone a light on the exclusions that lie beneath these processes and the kind of barriers they pose for racialized members of the academe.
Major institutions and actors involved in the pursuit of scientific scholarship have responded to these discussions in different ways. The speakers will discuss some of the approaches they are taking. Our hope is to learn from each other to better understand how we can all work together to support this endeavor.
