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West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards 2023 – Call for Nominations

The BC Teaching and Learning Council (BCTLC) is pleased to open the call for nominations for the West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards. The West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards recognizes exemplary teaching in public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia....

Press Release for Larry Leung, University of British Columbia

Press Release for Larry Leung, University of British Columbia

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is pleased to announce that assistant professor of teaching Larry Leung is the recipient of the British Columbia Teaching and Learning Council’s West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards....

Press Release for Dr. Lyn Baldwin, Thompson Rivers University

Press Release for Dr. Lyn Baldwin, Thompson Rivers University

Lyn Baldwin is a science educator and plant ecologist whose aim is to help her students make meaningful change in their communities. Her exceptional contributions to teaching and learning include using place-based and creative approaches to connecting students with...

Press Release for Dr. Paola Ardiles Gamboa, Simon Fraser University

Press Release for Dr. Paola Ardiles Gamboa, Simon Fraser University

VANCOUVER/COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – Senior lecturer Paola Ardiles is a well-respected educator at Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), where she exemplifies community-engaged scholarship, decolonial teaching practices along with...

Press Release for Dr. Awneet Sivia, University of the Fraser Valley

Press Release for Dr. Awneet Sivia, University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley's reputation for teaching excellence was recognized when Professor Awneet Sivia was named a West Coast Teaching Excellence Award winner, as one of the province's top teaching professors. Dr. Sivia is an education specialist teaching...

Press Release for Dr. Matthew Beedle, Coast Mountain College

Press Release for Dr. Matthew Beedle, Coast Mountain College

Coast Mountain College would like to congratulate Professor of Geography in the Environmental Geosciences Program, Matthew Beedle Ph.D., on winning the first-ever West Coast Teaching Excellence Award. Coast Mountain College is privileged to be situated in some of the...

BCTLC Position Statement on Academic Surveillance Technology

This piece was collaboratively written by BCTLC members and shared by co-Chairs 2020-22  Dr. Anne Sommerfeld (UNBC) and  Dr. Paula Hayden (College of New Caledonia). This past year has brought numerous changes to teaching in higher education. One rapid change involved...

June 2017 Happenings

Welcome to new BCTLC Executive Members for 2017/18: Co-Chairs: Theresa Southam (Selkirk) and Maureen Wideman (UFV) Chairs Elect: Janni Aragon (UVic) Past Chair: Vivian Forssman    

Acknowledgement

Members of the BCTLC are grateful to live, work, and be in relation with people from across many traditional and unceded territories, covering all regions of British Columbia. We are honoured to live on this land and are committed to reconciliation, decolonization, and building relationships in our communities and schools.

Suggested Land Acknowledgements for Institutions in B.C.