Apply to serve on UBC’s Accessibility Committee

UBC is taking steps to establish an Accessibility Committee to support disability inclusion and guide future direction at the university. Students, staff, and faculty are invited to apply to serve on the inaugural Committee.

The Committee will be tasked with providing on-going guidance and advice to the university on the identification, removal and prevention of barriers to accessibility and to help fulfill the university’s legal obligations and commitments to disability inclusion and justice principles.

Of the 18-member committee, the UBC Executive will appoint six members for key offices and hold three seats for student leaders representing the Alma Mater Society (AMS), Graduate Student Society (GSS), and Students’ Union of Okanagan (SUO).

Nine at-large UBC community members will be selected through this open call for applications, of which there shall be at least two students, two staff, and two faculty members.

Public sector organizations in British Columbia are required to establish an accessibility committee, an accessibility plan and a build tool to receive feedback on their accessibility. Committed to building a more accessible campus environment and in accordance with the Accessible British Columbia Act, UBC is now undertaking steps to meet these legislated requirements by September 1, 2023.


Application process

Student, faculty, and staff interested in applying to serve on the Accessibility Committee should:

  1. Review the Terms of Reference to ensure alignment of eligibility and interests with the mandate and commitment required;
  2. Submit an online application for consideration by the UBC Executive selection committee. Members will be selected so as to meet the compositional diversity requirements of the Act.

Deadline to apply is March 13, 2023.

 

Please note that you will be submitting your application using UBC Qualtrics. For alternative application options, please email avp.eio@equity.ubc.ca.


Member appointment and selection

In accordance with the Act and UBC’s Terms of Reference, Committee members will be appointed and selected with consideration of the following compositional diversity goals:

  1. The members are from the UBC community (student, faculty, and staff) representing both the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses;
  2. At least half of the members are persons with disabilities or individuals who support or are from UBC organizations that support persons with disabilities;
  3. The members described in (b) reflect the diversity of persons with disabilities in British Columbia;
  4. At least one of the members is an Indigenous person;
  5. The committee reflects the diversity of persons in British Columbia.

To the extent possible and as informed by responses to a voluntary self-identification survey, UBC will strive to constitute a committee with at least half of the members identifying as having a disability.