LFS Today Aug 10, 2022

News

Reminder: Field Work Safety Planning

Remember that all field work conducted off-campus requires a field work safety plan. LFS has updated the website: https://my.landfood.ubc.ca/new-to-lfs/field/ to help expedite the planning process.

If you have any questions or would like additional feedback, please reach out to lfs.facilities@ubc.ca.

Events

Aug. 24 – Connecting Power, Privilege, and Positionality to Teaching and Learning Contexts

This event is part of the CTLT Summer Institute, taking place from August 22–26, 2022.

This session is designed to help educators start exploring anti-racism in teaching and learning by reflecting on key concepts such as power, privilege, and positionality, and understanding how these concepts manifest in various educational contexts. As participants engage in introspective reflection activities and small group discussions, they will learn about how their own identities impact their roles as educators and the learning environments to which they are connected. Participants can expect to explore and consider how their personal, place-based, and social identities influence their teaching pedagogy and their personal, professional and academic lives.

Facilitators:

• Sue Hampton, Educational Consultant: Facilitation and Process Design, CTLT
• Freda Maideen, Educational Consultation: Anti-Racist Teaching & Facilitation, CTLT

Wednesday, August, 24

9:30am – 11:00am

Learn more and register

Sept. 27, Oct. 25, Nov. 16 – Inclusive Leadership for Managers and Supervisors (with Bakau Consulting)

This three-part workshop series, facilitated by Bakau Consulting, is for managers and supervisors at UBC who want to use an anti-oppressive lens to become a more inclusive leader. This includes building your skills and capacity to have more courageous conversations, listen with empathy, and learn to acknowledge and disrupt the systemic barriers in the workplace to foster a more inclusive environment.

Through engaging activities, reflective prompts, ‘aha’ moments, and skill-building, this workshop will give participants the tools to apply learnings in all aspects of their lives.

Dates & Times:

• Tuesday, September 27: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. PST
• Tuesday, October 25: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. PST
• Wednesday, November 16: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. PST

Learn more and enroll

Deadlines

Aug. 20 – Job Posting: 2022-2023 LFS TA Training Coordinator Position

LFS is looking for a graduate student to fill a position of coordinator for the 2022-2023 LFS
TA Training Program under the supervision of an Advisory Committee. Note this is one of two
coordinator positions, one of which has already been filled.

Application
Please submit all resumes and cover letters to Sandra Brown, Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Land and Food Systems by August 20, 2022. Applications should be sent by email to sandra.brown@ubc.ca. Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview. The year-long position starts Sept 1, 2022 (earlier if possible).

If you have any questions about the position, please direct them to the 2022-2023 TA Training Program Coordinator, Alysha Deslippe at alyshade@student.ubc.ca

Read the full job posting