In May 2003 about 170 students, academics, co-op leaders, and independent researchers from nearly thirty countries gathered at the University of Victoria to attend a conference jointly sponsored by the International Co-operative Alliance, the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation and the British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies. While researchers presented papers on...
Adult Education
Margaret Chrumka
Colleen Shepherd
Date of Incorporation: July 16, 1996
Kari Hewett
Membership: The AMS Bicycle society consists of almost 500 members of the University of British Columbia’s undergraduate and graduate student population as well as the university’s staff, faculty, and other community members.
Activity: The Bike Co-op is dedicated to making the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus a better place for...
Julia Smith, BCICS Researcher
Pitseolak, the famed Inuit artist, writes in her autobiography, “I know I have had an unusual life, being born in a skin tent and living to hear on the radio that two men have landed on the moon.” [1] Many Inuit of Pitseolak’s generation experienced the transition from living nomadically on the...
