University of British Columbia
Public university in Canada
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| 2025 | Added the Vice-President Student Life position to the AMS Executive leadership structure, expanding the executive team to six members. |
| 2025 | The Education Library is scheduled to close. |
| August 20 2024 | Premier David Eby, Minister of Housing Ravi Kahlon, and UBC President Benoit-Antoine Bacon announced a $560 million joint funding partnership for student housing expansion, marking the largest affordable student housing project in UBC and British Columbia's history. |
| July 2024 | UBC adopted the Campus Vision 2050 land use plan for the Point Grey campus lands, which provides an updated strategic vision for campus development. |
| 2023 | Benoit-Antoine Bacon assumes the presidency of UBC, serving from 2023 to the present. |
| 2021 | Census recorded UBC Vancouver's population at 15,103, showing a growth of 2,247 residents since 2016. |
| May 2021 | AMS voted to become a full member of the Undergraduates of Canadian Research Intensive Universities. |
| May 2020 | UBC announced a virtual graduation for the class of 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic concerns. The university received $419,248 from the Government of Canada to promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake among public health leaders and community figures. |
| 2018 | During the 2018-2019 academic year, the UBC community downloaded 3.4 million ebooks and 7.4 million journal articles, equivalent to 89 journal article downloads and 41 ebook downloads per person. |
| 2017 | UBC Library ranked 29th among Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members for the number of physical volumes, making it the third largest Canadian academic library. |
| 2016 | Start of a population growth period for UBC Vancouver, with significant expansion of on-campus residential development. |
| 2016 | David H. Farrar serves as president for a brief period in 2016. |
| August 15 2016 | Professor Santa J. Ono assumed the presidency of UBC, after previously serving as president of the University of Cincinnati. |
| June 30 2016 | Dr. Martha Piper concluded her term as interim president. |
| 2015 | UBC concluded the 'Start an Evolution' capital campaign, raising $1.624 billion, exceeding the initial goal of $1.5 billion. |
| 2015 | AMS voted to leave the Alliance of British Columbia Students (ABCS). |
| October 2015 | UBC Library opened its newest facility, the Library Preservation and Archives (PARC), a high-density modular storage facility located at UBC Vancouver's South Campus. The facility can store approximately 1.6 million volumes and includes a campus-wide records management service. |
| September 1 2015 | Dr. Martha Piper began serving as interim president following the resignation of Dr. Arvind Gupta. |
| 2014 | Arvind Gupta becomes president, serving a short term until 2015. |
| 2013 | AMS election achieved a historic high voter turnout of 43.9%, coinciding with a referendum on the continuation of UPass. |
| December 1 2013 | AMS formally founded the Alliance of British Columbia Students, a non-profit confederation of British Columbia student societies. |
| November 2011 | AMS ultimately withdrew entirely from the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. |
| September 2011 | UBC publicly launched the 'Start an Evolution' capital campaign. |
| March 31 2010 | Previous withdrawal from CASA was overturned. |
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