Georgia Straight
By: Charlie Smith
November 15, 2018
In the November 15 Education Feature of the Georgia Straight, teacher candidate Natasha Philibert-Palmer says she hopes to encourage more girls and Indigenous students to discover the joy of science.
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By liza navarro
November 16, 2018 – December 14, 2018
This year LLED has chosen an amazing local non-profit charity that strives to provide books for children in need, Books for Me! Literacy Foundation. In an effort to raise awareness of this organization and have a larger impact, we have received the support of the UBC Education Library! Together our communities will collect gently used/new books, as well as money donations, for this non-profit organization from November 16 – December 14.
In addition, we are reaching out to our education community at UBC in hopes that you will also participate and help us donate books to this wonderful cause.
Books for Me! asks that donated books:
- be for children aged 12 and younger
- are clean and like new or brand new
- are not scary or violent
- are not affiliated with any religious group
You can donate books at both the LLED office (PCOH 2013) and the UBC Education Library in Scarfe. You can also donate money at the LLED office.
Please help us support this amazing organization that helps to build children’s libraries by donating books directly to children in Vancouver !
If you have any questions or concerns regarding donations, please do not hesitate to contact Liza Navarro.
By alex smiciklas
Georgia Straight
By: Charlie Smith
November 14th, 2018
Many British Columbians don’t realize that there are more than 70,000 Indigenous students in the province’s K-12 public-school system. That’s about 13 percent.
Yet only about two percent of B.C.’s approximately 42,000 certified public-school teachers are Indigenous, according to UBC’s associate dean for Indigenous education, Jan Hare.
This has created a pressing need for Indigenous teachers and culturally grounded educators.
Read the full article
here.
By alex smiciklas
On November 15, SSHRC launches its seventh annual Storytellers contest. SSHRC is once again challenging postsecondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research affects our lives, our world and our future prosperity.
The contest is open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, enrolled at Canadian postsecondary institutions. The task is to tell the story, in three minutes or 300 words, of a SSHRC-funded research project—their own or a professor’s. Each year, a jury selects 25 finalists to receive a $3,000 cash prize and specialized training in research communications. At the 2019 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a second jury will select the final five winners, who will receive an expense-paid trip for their presentations to be featured at the prestigious SSHRC Impact Awards.
For further details on this year’s Storytellers contest, please follow them on Twitter, watch the #SSHRCStorytellers and visit the website.
Participant questions should be addressed to Storytellers@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.
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By alex smiciklas
November 15, 2018
It has come to the attention of the Faculty of Education that multiple phishing scams have started to appear in peoples inboxes. While the UBC Cybersecurity team continues to investigate this matter, we would like to ask that everyone remains vigilant to help protect information security and data at UBC.
Report any of the following instances to security@ubc.ca immediately:
- All odd communications that you may receive via email or phone. Both of these channels are being used to gather your credentials (typically CWL username & password).
- Urgent requests for wire transfers or the purchase of gift cards (usually iTunes) where the requestor can only be reached via email – the sense of urgency, and the requirement to only communicate by email, are signals that you need to confirm by a method other than email (e.g. phone, in-person, text message) that the request is legitimate.
Be on the look-out for the following in your day to day emails:
- Sender – is the sender email legitimate (@ubc.ca vs. fake ones like: ca or ubc.com).
- Gmail Senders – Gmail accounts with the names of staff and faculty are also being used
- Content – is this typical communication that you would receive from the sender.
- URLs/Links – hover over links with your mouse to see if the email link matches what’s expected from the message. Links that don’t match may be a sign of malicious intent.
- Signature – does the sender email address match the signature – if it doesn’t look right, it could be an indicator of malicious intent.
If you have already provided your credentials to a website or opened an attachment that you are unsure about, please also contact security@ubc.ca. This may help the UBC Cybersecurity Team in identifying other victims and to identify any patterns.
As staff and faculty at UBC, it is our responsibility to keep our information and data safe. Please remain on heightened alert given the recent circumstances, and help deter any future compromises by reporting any suspicious activity to security@ubc.ca and sending a copy to Dr. Natasha Boskic, Director, Learning Design, at natasha.boskic@ubc.ca.
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By alex smiciklas
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The Yenching Academy offers a highly customizable Master’s program in China Studies for English speakers with varied levels of Chinese language competency, and brings together a cohort of rigorously selected young scholars from around the globe who show promise to lead and innovate in their fields. At the core of the one-year residential program lies its emphasis on interdisciplinarity and its aim to push the study of China beyond the boundaries of traditionally defined Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines, by incorporating the experiences and intellectual training of its diverse student body.
The Yenching Academy’s generous fellowship includes:
- Tuition fees
- Round-trip travel from the scholars’ home countries to Beijing
- Accommodation on campus
- Living costs
Application deadline, November 23, 2018 @ 4:00 pm through Go Global
If you have any questions about the application process or the program, please contact James Leeder, Go Global, at go.global@ubc.ca.
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