Core Area
Education
Strategic Area
Sustained focus on recruitment and services to attract and support an outstanding and diverse student population
Goal Status
In Progress
Objectives
- Continue to enhance student services—working with students to optimize to meet their needs.
- Academic portfolio to support Associate Dean Students (ADS) portfolio efforts to create a cross-program culture of vibrant and connected student communities across the Faculty (2025).
- Associate Dean Students portfolio will continue to increase student engagement efforts and activities across programs to increase awareness of the ADS and its role in supporting students, building connections amongst students, and overall student support (2024).
- Academic and Students portfolio will continue to look for ways to involve the Pharm Sci Embedded Counsellor in providing proactive and supportive programming to students (2024).
Achieved Goals
- Hired Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Manager with 0.5 FTE responsibility to provide support to Indigenous students through OSS (May 2023).
- Created Associate Dean Students portfolio to enable the Faculty to better support students (Aug 2023).
- Created Student Engagement Coordinator role (Dec 2023) to better improve Faculty-student relations.
- Increased FTE of Student Counsellor role to 0.6 FTE (Feb 2024).
- With the support of the ADGPS Office, a UBC Pharm Sci Postdoctoral Society established, with a goal to foster a vibrant postdoctoral fellow community through organized social and professional development activities (2023).
- $200,000 USD in funding granted by the McKesson Foundation to Jason Min and Larry Leung to build the first Indigenous Pharmacy Student Collegium in Canada (2023).