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Good morning! We're back covering the second day of #UBCBoG committee meetings.

The only meeting on today's schedule is the Audit Committee. Here's the (short) open session agenda: bog3.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/09/…
Chair Jessie Dusangh opens the meeting with a land acknowledgment.

He welcomes Azim Lalani as the new vice-chair of the committee, and thanks interim VP Finance Karamjeet Heer as this is her last Audit Committee before she leaves for SFU.
Committee members approve the open session agenda and the meeting minutes from their last committee meeting.
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And we're back for the final #UBCBoG meeting of today: Executive Committee.

Here's the (short) agenda for the open session: bog3.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/09/…
BoG + committee chair Nancy McKenzie opens the meeting with a land acknowledgment.
McKenzie welcomes Chaslyn Gillanders and Joel Solomon who were recently appointed as chairs of the Indigenous Engagement + Sustainability & Climate Action committees, respectively.
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Hello! We're back covering today's #UBCBoG committee meetings.

Up now is the Property Committee. Here's the agenda: bog3.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/09/…
Chair Miranda Lam opens the meeting with a land acknowledgment.

She also welcomes new faculty governor, Dr. Marianne Legault, from UBC Okanagan.
Lam says governors will hear an update on the eagle nest in Wesbrook during the closed session.

Some context: ubyssey.ca/news/bald-eagl…
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#UBCBoG moves onto a presentation about Indigenous students at UBC.
Andrew Parr: this presentation would answer what we're doing to break down the barriers for Indigenous students to access UBC. But also acknowledged ongoing challenges associated with things like housing, cultural change, etc.
Domestic: 8% of UBCO and 3% of UBCV. That number has been "very stubborn" at UBCV — we have focused on moving that number but it hasn't moved a lot.
Provincially, at both campuses, we represent 10% of Indigenous learners.
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#UBCBoG Verbal update on the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.

Szeri: We're negotiating some important agreements that will allow for the appropriate protection and privacy for the data and agreement within the university about affiliation with the library.
Szeri: We also secured approval from Senate to be a Centre. ubyssey.ca/news/irshdc-be…

Turpel-Lafond: Have hosted and engaged with hundreds of visitors, students.
Turpel-Lafond: Had an opportunity to convene dialogue — an important mandate of the centre. The first dialogue was held at the Musqueam with a gathering of Indigenous legal experts from across Canada. "It was a pathbreaking meeting."
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