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University of British Columbia Okanagan

The University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus (usually proposed as UBCO) is a grounds of the University of British Columbia, orchestrated in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Home to around 8,410 understudy and graduate understudies, the 209 hectares (516-range of region) Kelowna grounds is masterminded in inside the area, in British Columbia's delightful Okanagan Valley.[1]

Substance [hide]

1 History

1.1 Okanagan University College

1.2 University of British Columbia

2 Campus

3 Student life

3.1 Greek life

4 Campus media

4.1 The Phoenix

4.2 UBCO.TV

5 Statistics

5.1 Full time staff

5.2 Full-time proportionate understudies

6 Faculties and Schools

7 See other than

8 References

9 External affiliations

History[edit]

Okanagan University College[edit]

Key article: Okanagan University College

The present defense for UBC Okanagan was at initially utilized by Okanagan University College. The school was set up in 1989 as a part of a game-plan by the gathering to enhance access to post-aide get ready in the Southern Interior British Columbia. At first degrees were remunerated in association with different colleges, however by 1995, the school started allowing degrees in its own particular name. Beginning in the late 1990s, Okanagan University College started doing combating endeavors to extend full school status.

School of British Columbia[edit]

In December 2002 the British Columbia Progress Board showed a report to the standard government, seeing the need to create post-aide rule in the Okanagan.[2] The board, drove by then University of British Columbia president Martha Piper, prescribed that the district grow "the summon of a present normal University to Kelowna… ".

In March 2004, BC Premier Gordon Campbell and the UBC President Martha Piper held a request and answer session, reporting that OUC would be isolated. Okanagan University's school operations would be met at its North Kelowna Campus and would go under the control of the University of British Columbia. Substitute exercises and grounds of Okanagan University College would shape another lesser school, which would later handle the name Okanagan College. The OUC Board was purportedly not welcomed to the request and answer session and had not been told right on time of the best in class end of OUC Board and expulsion or the end or most of the OUC load up members.[3]

As exhibited by the Ministry backgrounder discharged at the time, the relationship between UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan would be "built up on the exceedingly intense University of California model" and that "UBC Okanagan and UBC Vancouver will each have a free senate to set instructive necessities for their particular establishments, based close-by requirements and necessities. In the interim, they will share a typical driving social occasion of governors, with solid representation from every region."[citation needed]

As of December 2014, UBC's Okanagan grounds is tended to on the UBC Board of Governors by Jeffrey Krupa, Dr. Michael Treschow, and Shannon Dunn.[4]

Campus[edit]

Charles Fipke Center for Innovative Research

Building, Management and Education (EME) Complex

Adding a third Floor to the Science building

Starting 2011 UBC's Okanagan grounds experienced a smart CA$450 million increase.

The University Center, was done in 2009. The 75,000 sq. ft. office fuses a couple UBC Okanagan working environments, UBC Students' Union Okanagan workplaces, meeting rooms, understudy club space, cafeteria and coffee shops, film, multi-sureness space, a helpful office, learning focuses, and Collegia.

The $31.5 million Charles E. Fipke Center for Innovative Research is a multi-reason scholarly and examination office. It gave 70,000 square feet of space for educating and research, including research labs, classrooms and exhibiting labs, workplaces, understudy house, address theater, and a creature thought office. The working in like way satisfied Five Green Globes and LEED Platinum benchmarks for sensibility utilizing geo-trade advancement.

Expressions and Sciences building and Engineering and association building were done in 2011 as well. The most beginning late finished the procedure of building is the helpful school building which was finished by end of the year 2011. The second Arts and Science building will merge another live creature testing office. In like way, there are differing understudy living courses of action in different times of change. All progression was at first set to be finished by September 2010, later anticipated to be done around eighteen months past that date.

The extension of UBC Faculty of Medicine made another appropriated supportive site, the Southern Medical Program, at UBC Okanagan. The structure is orchestrated in the Kelowna General Hospital. The Southern Medical Program opened 32 seats for its first sidekick of remedial understudies at UBC Okanagan on August 29, 2011.

In 2012, the Health Science Center was opened giving 47,000 sq. ft. of quick and examination space for cutting edge classrooms, investigate and showing labs, issue based learning rooms and workforce and conclusive workplaces.

Near to the physical progression of the grounds, the grounds' Collegia program has extended national thought as a home far from home for its expansive worker population.[5]

As per the UBC Okanagan Campus Plan in Sept. 2015,[6] the going with 20 years will see extraordinary development in examination, teaching, understudy living strategy, and business spaces. A proposed 85,292-square meter increment in keen space will radically work beyond what many would consider possible. Understudy living strategy is proposed to increment by ~2,200 beds to an aggregate of ~3,900 beds. Business space will increment from current 2,411 square meters to 4,561 square meters. The extra space will stay inside the standard Okanagan grounds, as opposed to meandering into the West Campus.

Understudy life[edit]

The school keeps up a "Grounds Life" focus and unmistakable workplaces.

Understudy living approaches

A perspective looking down through the living courses of action.

UBC Okanagan Library

UBC Okanagan Library

Greek life[edit]

The Okanagan grounds beginning now has two sororities and one gathering. The sororities are Theta Phi and Alpha Omega Epsilon. The Fraternity is Sigma Phi Delta. Alpha Omega Epsilon and Sigma Phi Delta are both International Organizations and have participation limitations based upon workforce (Engineering understudies for Sigma Phi Delta,[7] Engineering and Technical Science[8] understudies for Alpha Omega Epsilon). Theta Phi is a range sorority open to all faculties.[9] The Okanagan grounds does not permit Greek inn, so none of these affiliations have an official house or room on grounds.

Grounds media[edit]

The Phoenix[edit]

The Phoenix (site), is the bi-after a long time understudy step by step paper at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan grounds. It was set up in 1989 at past Okanagan College.[10]

UBCO.TV[edit]

The UBCO.TV makes recordings about examination, training, current occasions and grounds life at the Okanagan grounds. Recordings are accessible on the UBCO.TV site.

Statistics[edit]

Full time faculty[edit]

Faculty 2005 2006 2007 2008 2014 2015[11]

Related Science (School of Eng.) 3 10 17 26 42

Beautician School of Arts and Sciences 108 113 124 129

Imaginative and Critical Studies 47 48 50 53

Education 15 15 14 18

Success and Social Development 40 35 39 38

Management 1 1 5 11

TOTAL 214 222 249 275 445 470

Full-time proportionate students[edit]

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 2014 2015

Undergraduate 2,811 3,278 4,073 5,325 6,015 7,075 7,901 7,748 7,530 7,668

Graduate 19 77 155 220 337 531 710 640 682 724

Totals 2,829 3,451 4,228 5,545 7,352 8,606 8,643 8,388 8,212 8,392

Resources and Schools[edit]

Real article: Faculties and Schools of the University of British Columbia

School of Graduate Studies

Irving K. Beautician School of Arts and Sciences

Work power of Creative and Critical Studies

Work power of Education

Work power of Applied Sciences

School of Engineering

Work power of Health and Social Development

School of Nursing

School of Health and Exercise Sciences

School of Social Work

Work power of Medicine, Southern Medical Program

The Faculty of Management

See also[edit]

School of British Columbia

School of British Columbia Okanagan Graduate Studies

Kelowna

UBCO.TV

References[edit]

^ Jump up to: a b Facts and Figures University of British Columbia

Ricochet up ^ British Columbia Progress Board report (pdf) December 2002

Ricochet up ^ Kelly Hayes, "UBC Taking Over OUC," http://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/210/UBC-Taking-Over-OUC

Ricochet up ^ http://bog.ubc.ca/?page_id=3003

Ricochet up ^ Applying information – Macleans OnCampus

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Ricochet up ^ "About Sigma Phi Delta". About Us. Recovered June 3, 2011.

Ricochet up ^ "Alpha Omega Epsilon History". History. Recovered June 3, 2011.

Sway up ^ "Theta Phi Sorority General Information". Theta Phi Sorority General Information. Recovered June 6, 2011.

Sway up ^ The Phoenix – About us

Sway up ^ "UBC Facts and Figures" (PDF).

Capital News (1990–2005). Kelowna, British Columbia.

Reliably Courier (1990–2005). Kelowna, British Columbia.

Freake, R. (2005). OUC Memoirs. Alright