Updated: UBC and SFU move to online classes as post-secondaries respond to COVID-19 recommendations

Update 1: UBC announced nowadays (March thirteen) that it is transitioning classes to on the net shipping and delivery as of Monday (March sixteen) for the rest of the term at all UBC campuses, such as UBC Vancouver, UBC Robson Sq., and UBC Okanagan.

For classes that can’t be supplied on the net, facts will be dispersed by colleges. 

UBC campuses will remain open and all university operations will go on as standard.

All inbound and outbound scholar review systems have been cancelled.

In the meantime, SFU also announced nowadays that it will begin transferring away from in-man or woman instruction beginning in the beginning of the week and continuing for the remainder of the term. 

All SFU campuses will remain open.

First report:

Different Vancouver-primarily based postsecondary institutions are responding to the COVID-19 tips created by the province yesterday.

B.C. provincial wellbeing officer Dr. Bonnie Henry had stated at a information conference on March 12 that the provincial federal government is recommending all functions with 250 or much more folks to be cancelled and to stay clear of journey exterior Canada.   

The University of British Columbia (UBC) announced nowadays (March thirteen) that it will be cancelling all such on-campus and off-campus functions, such as sporting functions, due to the suggestion to do so for functions involving 250 or much more attendees.

Gatherings at the Chan Centre for the Accomplishing Arts have also been cancelled.

All UBC classes with 250 or much more college students are now suspended and UBC is working to decide how lecture elements can be sent on the net or by way of other kinds of shipping and delivery.

Updates are currently being offered at UBC’s campus notifications webpage.

Simon Fraser University (SFU) has not but announced the cancellation of classes. SFU president and vice-chancellor Andrew Petter issued a statement on March 12 to reveal that SFU’s emergency operations system is underway and will reply to the evolving circumstance.

The university also stated that it is exploring remote solutions for college students, faculty, and employees.

SFU is not at present mindful of any COVID-19 conditions in just their university group and is delivering up to date facts on a focused COVID-19 webpage. 

At the British Columbia Institute of Technological innovation (BCIT), the university stated that all BCIT–related journey exterior Canada, such as to the U.S., is currently being cancelled or suspended. A lot more facts is avaialble at the BCIT campus updates webpage.

In the meantime, Emily Carr University of Art and Design and style (ECUAD) has cancelled a lecture by artist Stan Douglas though Mark Rutledge’s communicate on Indigenous layout will go on on for college students but will be shut to community attendance. ECUAD also has a focused COVID-19 updates and tips webpage.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) announced on March 12 that it is cancelling all functions with 250 or much more folks, such as the spring convocation and cancellation all non-crucial journey exterior Canada.

Vancouver Group University is complying with the tips, such as cancelling all get the job done-related journey exterior Canada and cancelling all massive functions until finally the stop of April while Langara College is advising all college students, faculty, and employees to follow the B.C. wellbeing tips.

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