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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
Kedrick James, Chair
Peter Arthur
Lynn Bosetti
Christopher Martin
Summer Seiki
Karen Switzer
Jessica Chan
At Risk Behaviour Policy Committee
Robert Campbell
Behavioural Ethics Research Board, Department Reviewer
Scott Douglas
Behavioural Ethics Research Board (ORS)
John Tyler Binfet (applied)
Certificate in Communications and Rhetoric (CORH) Advisory Board
Scott Douglas
College of Graduate Studies Scholarship and Awards Committee
Robert Campbell
Conflict of Interest Reviewer
Scott Douglas
Council of Senates
Peter Arthur
Council of Senates Budget Committee
Peter Arthur, Chair
Council of Senates Elections Committee
Peter Arthur
Council of Senates Executive Committee
Peter Arthur
Dean’s Advisory Committee on Research
Jessica Chan
Dean’s Advisory Council
Kedrick James
DVC’s Advisory Committee on Positive Space
John Tyler Binfet
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization Committee
Sumer Seiki
Faculty Curriculum Chair
Scott Douglas
Faculty Personnel Committee
Sabre Cherkowski
Graduate Curriculum Advisory Committee
John Tyler Binfet
Graduate Program Council
John Tyler Binfet
Graduate Studies Program and Curriculum Committee
Catherine Broom
Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Committee
John Tyler Binfet
Positive Space Committee
John-Tyler Binfet
Research Advisory Committee
Christopher Martin
Senate Academic Buildings and Resources Committee (Okanagan Campus)
Peter Arthur, Chair
Senate Admissions and Awards
Rob Johnson, Chair
Senate Agenda Committee
Peter Arthur, Vice-Chair
Senate Curriculum Committee
Scott Douglas
Senior Appointments Committee
Lynn Bosetti
Standing and Discipline, Okanagan Senate Sub-Committee
Robert Campbell, Chair
Student Academic Success Committee
David Trumpower
Teaching & Learning Advisory Committee
Christopher Martin
UBC Classroom Artwork Organizing Committee
Christopher Martin
UBC Faculty Association Bargaining Prep Committee
Peter Arthur
UBC Faculty Association Executive Committee
Peter Arthur
UBC Faculty Association Okanagan Committee
Peter Arthur, Chair
UBC Okanagan Gathering Space/Outdoor Classroom Committee
Robert Campbell
UBC Okanagan Senate
Robert Campbell
UBC Okanagan Senate, Joint Faculty Representative
Peter Arthur