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Chapman Story & Video Award: 2012 Winners
Congratulations to the winnners of the 2012 Chapman Story Awards. Submitted stories and videos reflect insights UBC students gained during their Trek, Reading Week, and Trek-affiliated community-based learning experience. Read the winning stories. The video award results will be announced shortly.
Read MoreEngineering CSL photo contest
Do you like to take pictures? You may be eligible to participate in the Engineering CSL photo contest and win one of two $200 gift certificates!
Submission deadline: March 25, 2012 11:59 pm
Announcement of winners: April 8, 2012
From There to Here: Learning & Leading with Community
Celebrate stories of meaningful community engagement. Come listen to presenters, enjoy an exhibition forum, and connect with other attendees. Here are the event details:
Date: November 3, 2011
Time: 10:00 am–12:00 pm
Location: Life Sciences Institute, West Atrium
A Win, Win, Win for All
For Tamar Milne, a sessional lecturer with UBC’s Sauder School of Business, building a community-based component into her fourth-year Sustainable Marketing class for the first time added an exciting and rewarding dynamic, for both teacher and students alike.
Experience Community through Course-Based Learning
Susan Nesbit is a professor with UBC's Faculty of Applied Science and a course instructor for Civil 201 and 202 – a course comprised of two halves that, since its inception, has included a community based component. Because of its community component, it's a course that's making an indelible mark on teacher and students alike.
Read MoreCommunity Partners: A Picture of Success
The UBC-Community Learning Initiative works with many different organizations in Vancouver and elsewhere in BC to build community. In this case, the organization is S.U.C.C.E.S.S., and specifically the multi-level care society that works with seniors. Initially founded to assist new Canadians of Chinese descent to overcome language and cultural barriers, S.U.C.C.E.S.S. has evolved into a multicultural, multi-service agency assisting people at all stages of their Canadian experience.
The Community Leadership Program
Leadership and learning happen in many ways — and at all stages of life. That’s the experience Ian Cooper and Lindsey Smith had, two participants in the Community Leadership Program, an initiative connected to UBC's Reading Week program.
Through the Eyes of Jug Sidhu
Jug Sidhu teaches a blended class of 24 grade six and seven students at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School.
Engaging Neighbourhoods
If anyone said community bonds couldn’t be formed over a dinner of chili and rice or arts and crafts and carnival-style games at a community fair, then they haven’t been to Vancouver’s Victoria-Fraserview neighbourhood.
Read MoreLearning about Community
Eamonn Watson, a spring 2010 UBC graduate of the Land and Food Systems faculty, knows a thing or two about community.
Through the Eyes of a Trek Student
Stephanie McGee, a third-year honours English student, took part in the UBC Learning Exchange’s Trek Program acting as a literacy tutor to an elementary school student.
Teaching through community
Jennifer Chun, assistant professor of sociology, is committed to actively engaging her students, pushing them so they learn more while thinking “outside the box.”
