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LFS Virtual Townhall Follow-up
LFS Holiday Café is December 16!
- Book your calendars for Wednesday, Dec. 16 (3-4:30pm) for the virtual LFS Holiday Café. We’ll be inviting LFS faculty, staff and students to join us – a Save the Date calendar notice is coming shortly. This is a chance to meet our newest faculty members – Gurcharn Brar, Matias Margulis, Risa Sargent, Tamara Cohen and Thorsten Knipfer – as they present in a quick-round Research Café.
- We welcome your holiday photos showing you, your ‘social bubble’ and pets getting into wintery, holiday mode. If you want to join the LFS Holiday Café slideshow, email your pictures to Karen.lee98@ubc.ca before Monday, Dec. 14 with ‘Slideshow’ in the subject.
Zhaoming Xu, Associate Dean, Academic relayed some updates from his area:
- The Provost’s Office has provided another round of TLEF Block Fund to support Winter Term 2 teaching & learning online.
- The Senate Policy Committee has put forward a proposal regarding exam hardships for students. If the proposal is approved by Senate, Zhaoming will email the details to faculty members.
Also, we received a couple of questions that we didn’t have time to answer:
- Question: A few meetings ago, Rickey mentioned the possibility of support from UBC for elder care and child care. Wondering if there is any more news on this?
- Answer: The LFS Family Care Assistance Program (FCAP) fund has been set up to help alleviate some of the costs associated with family care that may occur as a result of the pandemic and/or the need to work from home. The LFS FCAP is available to all staff, faculty, GAAs, UAAs, and GTAs. If you have (or have had) any family care expenses arising from the pandemic (either ongoing, unexpected, or one-time expenses – retroactive to March 15, 2020), you are eligible to apply for these funds up to $500 per employee. For full details, visit the LFS Intranet – Finance Policy page: https://my.landfood.ubc.ca/finance/policies-2/
- Question: Can we get details on how UBC Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP) pays for therapy?
- Answer: EFAP provides both short-term clinical counselling and work-life consultations to all eligible UBC employees and their dependent family members, at no cost to users other than the cost of your monthly premiums. You can visit the UBC EFAP website to learn how to access their professional counselling, work-life counselling and emergency services.
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Virtual Holiday Baking with LFS Alumna
Love baking? Don’t know how to bake? Whether you’re a newbie or a pro, all are welcome to attend this light, fun, and family-friendly holiday baking session. Kelsey Wong, (BSc Food, Nutrition and Health ’16), will demonstrate how easy it is to bake sugar cookies while offering vegan and gluten-free options and of course, fun and festive decorating tips and tricks! Don’t worry, this program is pre-recorded so you can stop, pause, and play while you and your family gather your ingredients and supplies.
Friday, December 4, 2020 at 5:00pm PST
Open to everyone. Registration is required.
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Reminder: LFS Curriculum Change – Dec 18 Deadline
Time again to submit any Curriculum Change Proposals you are considering.
Proposals can include a variety of changes to an LFS course or program, from changing the title of a course to adding a new program.
Please forward your prepared Curriculum Change Proposal requests to Virginia Frankian by12 noon, Dec. 18 , 2020.
The process for curriculum change is:
- Create the proposal using the Curriculum Proposal Form (2-Column form;https://senate.ubc.ca/vancouver/curriculum-submission-guide/curriculum-forms). You can find the guidelines in the Downloads sidebar on the right-hand side of the page.
- Obtain approvals from your disciplinary group (e.g., applied animal biology, food science, and food and resources economics groups) followed by your corresponding Program (APBI, FRE, and FNH).
- Submit the approved form to the LFS Curriculum Committee via Virginia Frankian (virginia.frankian@ubc.ca). If needed, the Curriculum Committee will return the proposal to the originator for clarification or revision.
- Proposal approved by the Committee will be presented to the LFS Faculty Council at its meetings for approval.
- For a Category 1 change (e.g. new course and new degree program), a proposal approved by the Faculty Council typically requires external unit and library consultation, and budgetary approval. Subsequently, the proposal will be submitted to the Senate Curriculum Sub-committee, then to the Senate Curriculum Committee and finally to the Senate for approval.
- For a Category 2 change, a proposal approved by the Faculty Council will be submitted to the relevant Senate Curriculum Sub-Committee for approval.
The Curriculum Proposal review and approval process, especially Category 1 change, is a long one. Items can go through edits at any level, and be sent back to the originator for corrections. Some Proposals require consultations with outside parties.
For these reasons, it is important to plan and submit your Proposal as early as possible. Please find the Curriculum Change Proposal submission deadline schedule for the upcoming year below:
- September 18, 2020
- October 16, 2020
- November 20, 2020
- December 18, 2020
- January 22, 2021
- February 26, 2021
Please add these dates to your calendars. Proposals submitted after the LFS Jan 22, 2021 deadline may not be approved in time to be included in the UBC Academic Calendar for the following September.
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December is Digital Declutter Month
Join Privacy Matters @ UBC and the University Records Management Office in participating in Digital Declutter December!
With most staff and faculty having moved to remote working and teaching, the files created, copied and updated, and the emails that have moved back-and-forth over 2020 has increased monumentally from 2019. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the tasks at hand, take advantage of the advice and resources available to you. Work together as a team to purge and organize your shared files, then follow our tips for efficient cleanup of the transitory records in your email!
Discover how you can participate.
Watch our conversation with University Archives Electronic Records Manager, Barbara Towell, as she explains how the University Records Management Office can work with you to develop custom records management strategies for you and your team. Learn about automation tools that will soon go into effect to help with transitory record cleanup in email.
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