{"id":4447,"date":"2018-05-04T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2018-05-04T08:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:38:23","slug":"pre-arrival-info-sessions-for-newly-admitted-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4447","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Arrival Info Sessions for newly admitted students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just a reminder that we have several <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/orientation.grad.ubc.ca\/events\/\">online info sessions<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"> that might be of interest to your newly admitted graduate students. Please share, there are two coming up as early as next week.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/orientation.grad.ubc.ca\/events\/us-student-loans-webinar\/\">US Student Loans Webinar \u2013 May 9<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Great for incoming grad students who are US citizens considering applying for US funding. \u00a0Topics include options for US funding, how to apply and receive for US funding, maintaining a US student loan, and important dates and deadlines. Presented by Enrolment Services.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/orientation.grad.ubc.ca\/events\/pre-arrival-webinar-for-graduate-students-with-families\/\">Info Session for Graduate Students with Families \u2013 May 10<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Great for incoming grad students coming to UBC with a partner and\/or family. General information on child care, registering for school, looking for a place to live, fun and affordable activities for kids of all ages, and other campus and community resources to help families prepare for arrival and settling in.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/orientation.grad.ubc.ca\/events\/\">Pre-Arrival Webinars<\/a><\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"> \u2013 June 5 and 6, and July 4 and 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">A comprehensive pre-arrival info session covering a range of topics including student finances, needs-based funding, tuition assessment, \u00a0living in Vancouver, and, for international students, information on immigration and health insurance.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For details and to register for any of these sessions, please visit the Events page on our Orientation website: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/orientation.grad.ubc.ca\/events\/\">http:\/\/orientation.grad.ubc.ca\/events\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Many thanks and warm regards,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Kelli<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">Kelli\u00a0Kiyomi\u00a0Kadokawa<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">Communications and Business Initiatives Coordinator<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">170-6371 Crescent Road\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver British Columbia\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z2 Canada<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">Phone 604 822 6475<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\"><a>kelli.kadokawa@ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@UBCGradSchool\">@UBCGradSchool<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder that we have several online info sessions that might be of interest to your newly admitted graduate students. Please share, there are two coming up as early as next week.\u00a0 US Student Loans Webinar \u2013 May 9 Great for incoming grad students who are US citizens considering applying for US funding. \u00a0Topics&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}