{"id":10654,"date":"2016-01-29T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2016-01-29T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:44:50","slug":"protest-at-ubc-feb-2-alumni-bldg-1230-ubcgss-bbysseynews-ubcnews-ubc100-bced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2016\/01\/protest-at-ubc-feb-2-alumni-bldg-1230-ubcgss-bbysseynews-ubcnews-ubc100-bced\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest at #UBC Feb 2, Alumni bldg. 12:30 #ubcgss #ubysseynews #ubcnews #ubc100 #bced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Protest at UBC<br \/>\nProtest the BoG Meeting<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Why:<\/strong>\u00a0Demand UBC management and Board accountability<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/calendar?adjusted_ts=1454400000&amp;open_popup_on_init=1\" rel=\"dialog\">Tuesday, February 2<\/a>\u00a0at <span title=\"12:30 PM in your time\">12:30 <\/span>\u2013 <span title=\"2:00 PM in your time\">2:00<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Where:<\/strong> Robert H. Lee Alumni Bldg,\u00a0Centre, 6163 University Boulevard, UBC<br \/>\n<strong>How:<\/strong> Faculty, staff and students will gather w\/ guests &amp; speakers, etc.<\/p>\n<p>UBC faculty, staff and students will protest the upcoming UBC Board of Governors Meeting,\u00a0and will publicly demand that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Board of Governors stops holding secret, undocumented meetings<\/li>\n<li>the Board honours its duty to operate in a transparent and accountable fashion<\/li>\n<li>an external review of its past practices takes place immediately<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more background on the issues leading to this protest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyassociation.ubc.ca\/docs\/UBCFA%20Letter%20to%20Members%2028%20January%202016.pdf\">see this letter from the Faculty Association of UBC<\/a>, which details how the BoG has, among other things, held committee meetings that left no official record, and made decisions about personnel matters without formal assessments or performance reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Please share with all interested UBC people: faculty, students, alumni.<\/p>\n<p>And faculty are encouraged to wear academic robes if they have them!<\/p>\n<p>We have invited MLA David Eby, MLA Andrew Weaver, Minister Andrew Wilkinson, and President Arvind Gupta to join us and speak about\u00a0these issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nghoussoub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">More details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest at UBC Protest the BoG Meeting Why:\u00a0Demand UBC management and Board accountability When:\u00a0Tuesday, February 2\u00a0at 12:30 \u2013 2:00 Where: Robert H. Lee Alumni Bldg,\u00a0Centre, 6163 University Boulevard, UBC How: Faculty, staff and students will gather w\/ guests &amp; speakers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2016\/01\/protest-at-ubc-feb-2-alumni-bldg-1230-ubcgss-bbysseynews-ubcnews-ubc100-bced\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,2249,287,2250,406501,2251,1223,2266,2270,1288917,2273,2275],"tags":[1288925,1288923,1288922,1288926,1288936,1288930,1288954,1288961,1288963,2674,1288964],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-accountability","category-administration","category-advocacy","category-bc-education","category-budgets-funding","category-governance","category-protests","category-solidarity","category-staff-2","category-students","category-unions","tag-academic-freedom","tag-administration","tag-faculty","tag-free-speech","tag-governance","tag-government","tag-protests","tag-students","tag-unions","tag-university-presidents","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10657,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/10657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}