Findings from the IBPOC Student Engagement Consultation Project
May 30, 2022 l Learn how UBC staff can advance equity while engaging with IBPOC communities.
Centre for Community Engaged Learning
The Centre for Community Engaged Learning collaborates with students, staff, faculty, and community partners to work through complex community-based issues, both locally and internationally. Programming places students in community settings for hands-on, immersive experience – either as part of an academic course or through voluntary co-curricular placements.
UBC Learning Exchange
A community engagement initiative based in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Local residents participate in and lead programs. Students learn in collaboration with residents. Faculty members partner on student placements, community-based research, knowledge exchange and community workshops. Local networks and organizations partner on these activities. The Learning Exchange is aiming to provide opportunities for UBC to make a contribution to the scholarship of engagement.
Public Scholars Initiative
The UBC Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) is designed to support UBC doctoral students as they strive for purposeful social contribution, produce new and creative forms of scholarship and dissertations, and explore diverse career pathways. With the PSI, UBC seeks to assist PhD students as they rise to address complex challenges in new, collaborative, and engaged ways.
UBC Public Humanities Hub
UBC Vancouver’s Public Humanities Hub is a three-year pilot project established in 2019 to foster and support collaborative research and to highlight and develop public-facing research in the Humanities in Arts, Law, and Education, at UBC-V.
Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at UBC provides access for former Indian Residential School students, their families, and communities to records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (housed at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Archives). The IRSHDC also provides information resources from partner institutions in support of education, public information, research, and dialogue about the Indian Residential School System and its legacies.
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is a gateway to UBC’s extensive library systems. It enhances access to information, knowledge and teaching through the support of learning and research on an interactive basis with people in BC and across the world. The Learning Centre is engaged in outreach, consultation and collaboration activities with community, including: webcasting of UBC-based lectures, promoting UBC community events, running the Small Business Accelerator program and the In-Digitization Project.
Green College
Green College is a residential facility for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting faculty but it is also a host-venue for co-curricular, cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral programs arranged by UBC students, faculty and community partners. The College hosts numerous academic and artistic events open to members of the university and the wider local community. See the Green College Calendar of Events to learn what is happening next.
First Nations House of Learning
First Nations House of Learning has four main functions: organizing and providing Longhouse student services; overseeing public programming and use of the building; providing a point of contact for liaison with Aboriginal communities; and leading strategic planning on UBC Aboriginal initiatives. The UBC Vancouver Aboriginal web portal is your resource for information relating to Aboriginal programs, initiatives, research and services that are available on the UBC Vancouver campus.
Entrepreneurship @ UBC
entrepreneurship@ubc offers programs supporting entrepreneurs from ideas to funding, through programs which include inspiring high school students, and offering advice, lab space, mentorships, access to experts, and networking opportunities to aspiring entrepreneurs.
Co-op at UBC
UBC’s Co-op program represents the largest in BC. Six (6) co-op programs support co-op recruitment at UBC’s Vancouver campus. Learn more about the benefits of hiring students, available from across almost every discipline.
Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)
CTLT is a transformative educational services partner to the UBC Community. CTLT provides programs, training and funding for faculty members to enhance teaching and learning. If you are an instructor looking to learn more about engaged practices and opportunities for funding, check out CTLT’s Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning or CTLT’s Communities of Practice.
Centre for Student Involvement & Careers
The Centre for Student Involvement and Careers is a hub that connects students to experiences, resources, and people that will help them achieve their personal and career goals. The Centre provides resources to employers wanting to hire UBC students, administers student hiring programs and postings, runs programs for parents of UBC students and much more.
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) is an internationally recognized research institution that serves as a living laboratory of, and research test-bed for, sustainable practice. The CIRS Community encompasses researchers, at UBC and other academic institutions, local and international partners from industry, government, non-government and non-profit organizations, staff and students working in the CIRS building. CIRS hosts educational events and runs initiatives to take the outcomes of sustainability research into the marketplace.
UBC Community Development (with on-campus communities)
UBC provides residents of the campus community with a complete, sustainable community. Residents on campus include faculty, students, staff and members of the public who have chosen to live in one of UBC’s many vibrant communities. Programs to support these vibrant communities are delivered along with the University Neighbourhood Association and include community grants, youth leadership program, fitness programs, community events, concerts, clubs and bike clinics.