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VP Academic Portfolio

This post was originally written by Tim Louman-Gardiner.

The VP Academic Portfolio is big. Huge. And very important.

Responsibilities:

  • Hiring. They interview hundreds of applicants for hundreds of positions, including all the services. That’s a spicy meatball, a spicy meatball of hiring.
  • Sits on a lot of external committees, most notably the Directors of University Neighbourhood Association, Teaching and Learning Committees, and everything related to University Town.
  • They spend a lot of time working on campus development issues, as well as issues relating to the way the University operates. In short, they lobby the University on internal matters, like development and, shock, Academics!

See http://www.ams.ubc.ca/vpacademic

By Neal Yonson

Neal Yonson is a native of Ottawa. He graduated from the University of Toronto with an Hon.B.Sc. in 2006 and will be happy to tell you about how things seemed to work more smoothly there. After traveling across the country for free (protip: strategically arrange grad school visits where they reimburse travel) he came to UBC to start a Ph.D. in chemistry. He was quite happy to avoid student issues until he found out how much it cost to go to the BirdCoop. Since then, he has been involved with a variety of advocacy projects.

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