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Podcast: The World is in Crisis – What Role Should Our Universities Play?

With today’s world in crisis, what should the role of the university be? And why are our public universities so underfunded? And how can they continue to serve their communities? Annette Henry (GRSJ Emerita) and Michelle Stack (GRSJ Faculty Associate/Education UBC) tackled these big questions and more on the Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast recorded live in front of an audience at UBC.

Support for those impacted by the tragedy at the Lapu-Lapu Day Festival

In Grief and Solidarity with the Filipino Community We have all been shaken by the horrific attack on the Lapu Lapu Filipino Festival on April 26, which resulted in the loss of 11 lives and the injury of so many others. GRSJ stands with the

GRSJ Community at BC Studies 2025 Conference

This year’s conference theme, “Place and Power,” highlights two concepts that are inextricably interconnected in British Columbia. Specifically, the theme was inspired by a new BA requirement in the Faculty of Arts at UBC (Vancouver), which

Whalers Washing House returns to its home on Nootka Island after 120 years

Elder Margaretta James (GRSJ Masters Student) was part of a Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation delegation that recently went to New York to retrieve what may be the largest treasure of a First Nation ever taken to the U.S.

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