FHIS + UBC: resources, advising, support, and care

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I (Dr O’Brien) am sharing some general useful resources below: openly-accessible freely-available information from the University. I use these resources a lot in the advising side of my work, you might also find them helpful, and they could also help you to help someone else. There are many people here at UBC who can help; even if it is “just” talking to someone with whom you feel comfortable and whom you trust, who will listen to you, that alone is already a vital service.

The same goes for any need to talk and to find support, whether something has happened to you or to someone you know, and also if nothing has happened but you worry that it might. Even if sometimes this seems like an overwhelmingly large university, and impersonal through its size and complexity: UBC is a compassionate caring community, made up of individual human beings.

QUICK NAVIGATION:

UBC FRENCH

ACADEMIC ADVISING

Through talking with them about academic matters during your time here, you may have already formed relationships with individuals with whom you would consider talking about other matters.

Academic advising at the departmental level may be another set of people to talk to, and again as with advising at the Faculty or School level, this is not just about a narrow sense of immediately academic matters: for example, here are the Academic Advisers in French, Hispanic & Italian Studies; students regularly talk to us about many things, all of which (and pastoral care) form part of any individual’s whole well-being.

UBC FACULTY OF ARTS

IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE FACULTY OF ARTS…

folon-luneSTUDENT SUPPORT

IN IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY + YOUR AMS

(1) Undergraduate residential advisers, and other student leaders who have had bystander & ally training

(2) Neighbours, friends, and classmates

(3) Faculty and other instructors (graduate-student teaching assistants, for example): you see us a lot, and we are here for you

(4) AMS:

  • Speakeasy:
    provides free, confidential, one-on-one peer support for UBC students facing a wide variety of challenges
    AMS Nest 1314
    Monday-Friday 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
    To make an apppointment: come by the Speakeasy reception desk on the main floor of the AMS Nest, across from Merit Travel (room 1314) or drop by their office in the Services Wing of the AMS Nest (room 3107L).
  • Sexual Assault Support Centre:
    offers free, confidential crisis and emotional support; committed to the education, support, and empowerment of people of all genders who are survivors of sexualized violence as well as their friends and family
    AMS Nest 3127
    Tel.: 604-827-5180
    Monday-Sunday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
  • Resource groups: Colour Connected, Pride, Social Justice Centre, Women’s Centre

ACADEMIC ADVISING

Through talking with them about academic matters during your time here, you may have already formed relationships with individuals with whom you would consider talking about other matters.

Academic advising at the departmental level may be another set of people to talk to, and again as with advising at the Faculty or School level, this is not just about a narrow sense of immediately academic matters: for example, here are the Academic Advisers in French, Hispanic & Italian Studies; students regularly talk to us about many things, all of which (and pastoral care) form part of any individual’s whole well-being.

STUDENT SUPPORT: LOOK AFTER ONE ANOTHER

ACCESS & DIVERSITY

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THE GREEN FOLDER

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EARLY ALERT

AND HERE’S EVEN MORE UBC SUPPORT, SERVICES, RESOURCES …

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SAFETY, ACCIDENTS, EMERGENCIES

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UBC POLICIES & PROCEDURES & RULES & REGULATIONS

A quick selection of some of the most important ones…

“I hereby accept and submit myself to the statutes, rules and regulations, and ordinances (including bylaws, codes, and policies) of The University of British Columbia, and of the faculty or faculties in which I am registered, and to any amendments thereto which may be made while I am a student of the University, and I promise to observe the same.”

[…] Students are required to inform themselves of the statutes, rules and regulations, and ordinances (including bylaws, codes, and policies) and to any amendments thereto applicable at the University. For policies and procedures issued by the Board of Governors, see the University of British Columbia Policy and Procedure Handbook or the Office of the University Counsel for the official text. For policies issued by the Vancouver Senate, see the Senate for up-to-date copies.

The University authorities do not assume responsibilities for others that naturally rest with adults themselves. This being so, the University relies on the good sense and on the home training of students for the preservation of good moral standards and for appropriate modes of behaviour […]

The University and University authorities are not obligated to enforce any statutes, rules, regulations, or ordinances (including bylaws, codes or policies) if discretionarily enforceable by law or made under its, or their, power or authority.

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