LFS Today Mar 22, 2021
By imelda cheung on March 22, 2021
Withdrawal (W) Deadline Extended to April 14, 2021
UBC Senate approved the extension of the withdrawal deadline to 11:59pm (Vancouver time) April 14, 2021. See here for details. Students are no longer able to drop courses themselves via their SSC. If students are asking about the implications of and/or process for withdrawing from classes this late in the term, please encourage them to contact their home Faculty Advising Office (comprehensive list found here) for instructions and next steps.
LFS students can make their request to LFS Student Services online using the form found here. Instructors with questions are welcome to contact us at students@landfood.ubc.ca or encourage students to reach out to us.
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Job Posting and Staffing Update for LFS Communications
As mentioned in January, Eric Skalij will be leaving UBC as he has recently relocated to Calgary. His last day with us has moved up to March 31, 2021. We thank Eric for the wide range of marketing-communications support offered to faculty, staff and students in LFS for the past four years, and we are excited for him as he begins an exciting, new chapter. I encourage you to say a virtual goodbye to Eric in his last week-and-a-half with LFS.
To fill his role, we have posted a Communications Coordinator position. The primary responsibilities will involve writing and creating content to promote LFS achievements, maintaining social media channels, and curating and editing electronic publications for content and clarity. The closing date for this job posting is 11:59pm on Sunday, April 4.
In addition, we will be posting a position that is focused on website marketing in the coming days. This position will be Digital Communications Specialist. Stay tuned.
Feel free to contact Karen Lee, Director, Marketing Communications, if you have any questions about the positions: Karen.lee98@ubc.ca.
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LFS Anti-Asian Racism Dialogue on March 29
Join us on Monday, March 29 (4:00pm-5:00pm) for a dialogue about Anti-Asian racism, with presentations from Dr. Henry Yu and Colin Dring.
Instances of Anti-Asian racism have increased in Metro Vancouver over the past 12 months. Recent acts of violence in the U.S., racist labels used by politicians to describe the coronavirus, and events on the UBC Vancouver campus that invoke terms such as “Yellow Privilege” and “Model Minority” indicate that we have a need to collectively discuss the discrimination, prejudice, and oppression experienced by individuals of Asian heritage in our community.
Anti-Asian Racism Dialogue
Date: Monday, March 29, 2021
Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m. PDT
Registration: Click here to register
Questions: email will.valley@ubc.ca or karen.lee98@ubc.ca
Dr Henry Yu is an Associate Professor in UBC’s Faculty of Arts. Dr. Yu teaches in the History Department and the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program at UBC, and is the Principal at UBC’s St. John’s College. He is the Director of the UBC Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC) and Board Member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (CCHSBC). His research and teaching centres the true histories of Asian migrants and acknowledge the harsh politics of white supremacy and discrimination they were faced with when moving to Vancouver, British Columbia, or Canada.
Colin Dring is a PhD candidate in the Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems program in UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems. He studies how colonial governments, in the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, attempt to shape agricultural futures in contexts of difference, complexity, and unpredictability. He is interested in the role that state planning plays in achieving justice in the food system. Concurrently, he is conducting scholarship and educational development on food justice pedagogies with three undergraduate students at UBC as part of a Teaching Learning Enhancement Fund project. This work inspires Colin’s studies and actions oriented towards an application of decolonizing, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-heteronormative framings to advance sustainable and equitable food systems and greater civic engagement through food and agricultural planning.
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Sandbox Webinars: Teaching Sustainable Food Systems
Time: Monday March 29 2021, 1:00pm PST
Topic: Community Partnerships in Co-Design of Sustainable Food Systems Curricula
Speakers: Kamuela Enos, Daniel Lipe, Albie Miles
University of Hawai’i West O’ahu
More info.
The development of academic degree programs and curricula face the risk of
being disconnected from communities when they are designed without
stakeholder engagement. Join us for a webinar reflecting on the importance of
community partnerships in the co-design of sustainable food systems curricula. We
will be joined by three leaders of the Sustainable Community Food Systems
Bachelor of Applied Science Program at the University of Hawai’i West O’ahu to
share experiences, approaches, and lessons learnt regarding academic and
community partnerships for curricula design.
The Sustainable Community Food Systems (SCFS) program at University of Hawai’i
incorporates problem-based and hands-on learning to develop food system
professionals capable of solving real-world problems and transitioning Hawai‘i’s
food system toward greater ecological sustainability, social equity and climate
change resilience.
Zoom Meeting ID: 872 7266 5693
Passcode: x5jhuP
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