Official new name: Creative and Critical Studies building
What used to be the Fine Arts and Health building is now the Creative and Critical Studies building. UBC’s Board of Governors approved the name change recently, and while exterior signs won’t be updated until warmer weather arrives, the prefixes on room numbers in that building have already been changed to CCS. With the formal […]
Stop the flu!
Defend against the flu this season. Influenza and norovirus are hitting areas of the province particularly hard this winter. Help protect yourself with the information below. Influenza and norovirus are hitting areas of the province particularly hard this winter. To help protect yourself, get a flu shot (health clinics, your doctor, and pharmacies). Also, wash […]
Raise awareness regarding individual privacy rights and responsibilities – celebrate Data Privacy Day and become eligible to win a BlackBerry PlayBook!
Please see a communiqué below from UBC’s President & Vice-Chancellor. In today’s world, our personal and professional lives are more public than ever before. Information pertaining to payroll, health, credit cards, and much more is collected, stored and accessed on a daily basis here at UBC. We all have a responsibility to protect the personal […]
Finance Sustainability
The following email was sent out on behalf of Michael Shakespeare, Associate Vice-President Administration and Finance on December 18, 2012 to the ‘Heads Up’ distribution list: Please distribute widely within your faculty / departments as appropriate. Over the past seven years UBC’s Okanagan campus has undergone tremendous growth, and many of our internal administrative services have […]
New, smaller garbage bins to reduce office waste
Small changes make a big difference. Facilities Management hopes that’s the case with garbage production on UBC’s Okanagan campus. Over the holiday season, garbage cans in offices and workstations across campus will be replaced by much smaller trash containers, in a move to reduce the amount of non-garbage going to the landfill. October’s campus waste […]