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Faculty & Staff Announcements
Dr. Bill Cohen received the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation for his remarkable contributions, passion, and dedication to fostering reconciliation and decolonization through education.
The Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation celebrates outstanding faculty members from UBC’s Okanagan campus who demonstrate preeminence in educational leadership, innovation, and teaching while embodying a commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and anti-racism, thus elevating teaching and learning on campus and beyond.
The UBC Board of Governors has accepted the President’s recommendation to appoint Dr. Jan Hare as the Dean of the Faculty of Education for a five-year term, commencing July 1, 2024.
Dr. Hare, an Anishinaabe-kwe scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation in northern Ontario, is a professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education of the UBC Faculty of Education. Since 2021, she has served as Dean pro tem of the Faculty of Education and has held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Pedagogy.
Dr. Kedrick James begins his position Interim Director of the Okanagan School of Education in the Faculty of Education for a two-year term commencing July 2, 2024.
This appointment coincides with the ongoing search for the next Director. We would like to extend our deepest thanks Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta for her many contributions and academic leadership that have shaped the School.
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Committee Membership
- David Trumpower, Chair
- Scott Douglas
- Rob Johnson
- Andrew Calhoun
- Bill Cohen
- Catherine Broom
- Giselle Sanderson, Recorder
- John Tyler Binfet, Chair
- Sabre Cherkowski
- Robert Campbell
- Lynn Bosetti
- Jessica Chan
- Lindsay Cox, Recorder
- Scott Douglas, Chair
- Peter Arthur
- Rob Johnson
- Stephen Berg
- Amber McLeod
- Lindsay Cox, Recorder
Behavioural Research Ethics Board, Departmental Reviewer
Scott Douglas
Conflict of Interest Reviewer
Scott Douglas
Faculty Curriculum Chair
Scott Douglas
Faculty Merit and Study Leave Committee
Kedrick James, Chair
Peter Arthur
Lynn Bosetti
Christopher Martin
Summer Seiki
Karen Switzer
Academic Planning Committee
Margaret Macintyre Latta
At Risk Behaviour Policy Committee
Robert Campbell
Awards Committee – Distinguished Visitor Fund
Chris Martin
Behavioural Ethics Research Board (ORS)
John Tyler Binfet (applied)
Behavioural Research Ethics Board
Wendy Klassen, Co-Chair
College of Graduate Studies Scholarship and Awards Committee
Robert Campbell
Council of Senates
Peter Arthur
Council of Senates Budget Committee
Peter Arthur, Vice-Chair
Council of Senates Executive Committee
Peter Arthur
DVC’s Advisory Committee on Positive Space
John Tyler Binfet
Graduate Program Council
Sabre Cherkowski
John Tyler Binfet
Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Committee
Sabre Cherkowski
ORS Standing Review Committee
Margaret Macintyre Latta
Positive Space Committee
John-Tyler Binfet
Research Advisory Committee
Christopher Martin
Senate Academic Buildings and Resources Committee (Okanagan Campus)
Peter Arthur, Vice-Chair
Senate Agenda Committee
Peter Arthur, Chair
Senate Curriculum Committee
Peter Arthur, Chair
Scott Douglas
Senate Nominating Committee
Peter Arthur, Vice-Chair
Senate Policy Sub-Committee
Peter Arthur
Standing and Discipline, Okanagan Senate Sub-Committee
Robert Campbell, Chair
Student Academic Success Committee
Peter Arthur
UBC Okanagan Gathering Space/Outdoor Classroom Committee
Robert Campbell
UBC Okanagan Senate
Robert Campbell
UBC Okanagan Senate, Joint Faculty Representative
Peter Arthur
UBC Student Evaluation of Teaching Working Group
Peter Arthur, Co-Chair
SD23 Joint New Teacher Network Steering Committee
Wendy Klassen
BCCampus Advisory Committee
Peter Arthur