Celebrate Learning Week Keynote – The Hurdle and the Highway: How We Think About Inclusion, Accommodation, and Disability, and Why it Matters

Online/Virtual Event

Dr. Timothy Cordes is the keynote speaker for the 2022 Celebrate Learning Week: https://celebratelearning.ubc.ca/events/2022-events/ Timothy Cordes’ experiences as a blind person in Science, Medicine, and as a Psychiatrist in college mental health care, have taught him unique lessons. Dr. Cordes will explore how we think about inclusion and accommodation, including realizing our own assumptions and […]

Free

Alumni Office Hours with Grace Kamara: BA’17: Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company – How I Leveraged My Skills in Support of My Career Transitions

Online/Virtual Event

My Career Story from UBC Arts, to the UN, Tech, and Consulting: How I leveraged my Skills in Support of my Career Transitions Grace is a young African intersectional feminist passionate about gender equality, social justice, international development and business strategy. She is a Consultant at McKinsey & Company, holds an MA in Development Studies […]

Free

Drop-in Career Advising for Undergraduate Arts Students

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Carli Fink, the Arts Career Strategist, will be offering drop-in advising for undergraduate Arts students from 1–3 PM Wednesdays during Term 2. Undergraduate Arts students are encouraged to drop in – no appointment needed! – and ask any career questions they may have. Students will be seen individually for up to 10 minutes each (unless […]

Drop-In Career Advising for International Undergraduate Students

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Irene Navarro, Career Educator, will be offering virtual drop-in advising for international undergraduate students from 1–3 PM Thursdays during Term 2. International undergraduate students are encouraged to drop in – no appointment needed! – and ask any career questions they may have. Students will be seen individually for up to 10 minutes each (unless demand […]

The Relevancy of Public Policy in a Digital Age

Online/Virtual Event

While digital government has been a well embedded feature of many mature public service models around the world, Canadian uptake of it was relatively limited until the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The need to physically distance from each other and for many, work remotely, necessitated the rapid automation and digitization of service delivery models and administration. […]

Drop-in Career Advising for Undergraduate Arts Students

Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Carli Fink, the Arts Career Strategist, will be offering drop-in advising for undergraduate Arts students from 1–3 PM Wednesdays during Term 2. Undergraduate Arts students are encouraged to drop in – no appointment needed! – and ask any career questions they may have. Students will be seen individually for up to 10 minutes each (unless […]