“The Vancouver UBC Senate is the highest academic governing of UBC Vancouver. It has approximately 90 members of which about 1/4 are students, 1/2 are faculty and 1/4 are the Deans and the upper level administrators at UBC.
As the Applied Science Student Senator, representing engineering and nursing undergrad students as well as graduate students in architecture, you will be expected to sit on one or two of the approximately 20 Senate committees, which generally meet monthly or bi-monthly. Two examples of Senate committees are the Senate Curriculum Committee (approves all new courses and entries into the UBC calendar) and the Student Appeals on Academic Discipline (students appeal the academic disciplinary decision of the President’s office if they feel their punishment is too harsh.) Your position as senator also gives you a certain credibility within the faculties you represent. For example, the last student senator worked with the EUS and the Engineering Dean’s office to organize a “Beef and Pizza” forum where students could come and share their concerns with student leaders and the Associate Dean, Engineering Students.
UBC student senators are also members of the Student Senate Caucus which meets for two hours before each Senate meeting. At the Student Senate Caucus meetings students update each other about the progress of their respective committees as well as preparing for the Senate meeting.”