by Adrian Paradis | Feb 5, 2015 | Campus, News
Bargaining between the UVic Faculty Association (FA) and the administration continues as a contract has yet to be agreed upon by the two sides. On Jan. 7, the FA applied to the Labour Relations Board to request that a mediator be brought in, and Trevor Sones was...
by Adrian Paradis | Jan 29, 2015 | Campus, News
UVic’s pro-life group, Youth Protecting Youth (YPY), faces a legal setback after a B.C. Supreme Court ruling last week. In 2013, the group was denied the booking of an outdoor space, intended for an event known as a ‘Choice Chain’ in which members present large,...
by Adrian Paradis | Jan 29, 2015 | Campus, News
UVic will hold its eighth annual Provost’s Diversity Research Forum from Jan. 29–30. This year’s forum, titled Privilege & Prejudice: Assumptions in Learning, will explore how perceptions such as gender, social class, sexuality, and ethnicity can impact how people...
by Adrian Paradis | Jan 22, 2015 | Campus, News
On Jan. 12, students and citizens of Victoria packed the Downtown Community Centre for a town hall meeting on fossil fuel divestment. The event, named Our Dollars, Our Future, was organized in co-ordination with city councillors Ben Isitt and Jeremy Loveday, as well...
by Adrian Paradis | Jan 22, 2015 | Campus, News
Over the summer term of 2014, UVic transitioned their end-of-term Course Experience Surveys (CES) from a handwritten form to an online survey that has been in use since. The survey, created by Montreal-based eXplorance Inc., guarantees confidentiality; however, the...