Hey everyone, We are super excited right now coming off the launch of our campaigns during Campus Kick Off 2016! During CKO 2016 we launched #TextbookBroke (textbook affordability), ReThink Mental Health (mental health awareness) and we continued work on the Let’s Get Consensual campaign (sexualized violence awareness). Our #TextbookBroke social media contest to win $300 […]
Free textbook adopted by Earth & Ocean Sciences course at UVic Students continue to advocate for more open educational resources Victoria – As the UVic Students’ Society gets set to launch its textbook affordability campaign ‘TextbookBroke’ in September, some faculty at UVic are already moving forward to adopt free textbooks for their courses. Earth and […]
Hi! The UVSS is currently ramping up to launch our 2016-2017 campaigns and we are very excited to launch #TextbookBroke – a campaign focussed on textbook affordability and the movement to adopt free open textbooks at colleges and universities in BC. Textbook affordability has reached a crisis point – prices have risen four times the […]
Last week, a matter came to the attention of the UVSS Elections Office and the University of Victoria Students’ Society (“UVSS”) that we would like to address in the following joint statement. An unknown individual, likely through the use of an online simulator, fabricated a conversation on Facebook. The forged conversation purported to be between […]
Victoria – Today UVic and Camosun students delivered 2,200 postcards to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission (VRTC) calling on the Commission and BC Transit to expand late-night bus service. “Since the Transit Commission launched a limited late-night bus service six years ago, this program has seen enormous success and has experienced a large spike in […]
In regards to many questions and concerns that have been raised by our members about the overturn in funding for the Undergraduates of Political Science (UPS) and their upcoming conference “Discourses on Sovereignty: Land, Borders and Bodies” the Board of Directors would like to issue this statement to explain our actions. On October 7, the […]
At the October 26, 2015 meeting of the UVSS Board of Directors, the Undergraduates of Political Science (UPS) requested $6000 for their conference on Sovereignty: Land, Borders and Bodies, through Course Union Council. The Board tabled this motion as concerns were raised about the content of the conference and the lack of proper consultation with […]
Victoria – The Victoria Regional Transit Commission will provide every refugee resettled in the greater Victoria region with a free one-year bus pass. A motion to establish this program was brought forward by Kenya Rogers, Director of External Relations for the University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS) and member of the Victoria Regional Transit Commission. […]
Victoria – As British Columbians were focussed on Canada’s 2015 Federal Election, the B.C. government quietly proposed amendments to the University Act that could result in funding cuts to vital programs and services for BC’s college and university students. Bill 41 – the Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act – is set for a second reading today. […]