Work has begun on a new $35-million Teaching and Learning Centre during UBC’s Okanagan campus.
“This investment in a growth of UBC’s Okanagan campus is covenant to a energy of partnerships between governments, post-secondary and students,” pronounced Santa Ono, UBC boss and vice-chancellor. “I demeanour brazen to saying a many good things that will come from a work undertaken by UBC students and researchers in these new and extended facilities.”
The appropriation includes a vital investment by students. In Oct 2014, students upheld a referendum to partner with UBC to fund, yet student fees, an an enlargement and renovation of a campus library.
“Thank we to a sovereign and provincial governments for these critical investments in a destiny of UBC in a Okanagan,” pronounced Deborah Buszard, UBC emissary vice-chancellor and principal, Okanagan campus. “I wish to demonstrate my thankfulness to a students for their joining of adult to $10 million to settle a Teaching and Learning Centre. It is an unusual grant to destiny generations.”
The appropriation will also support environmental sustainability projects for investigate infrastructure, that will concentration on sustainability upgrades to 11 campus buildings and sustenance of services and utilities to a UBC Innovation Precinct.
Kelowna-Lake Country MP Stephen Fuhr, on interest of a Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, and Norm Letnick, Minister of Agriculture and MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country, on interest of Andrew Wilkinson, Minister of Advanced Education, were on campus for the announcement.
Deborah Buszard, UBC emissary vice-chancellor and principal, Okanagan campus, distant left, poses on a construction site with arch librarian Heather Berringer, tyro kinship boss Blake Edwards, MP Stephen Fuhr, MLA Norm Letnick, and former UBC Okanagan tyro kinship boss Tom Macauley.
