By legislation, the board is responsible for the management, administration and control of the property, revenue, business and affairs of the university including the appointment of senior officials and faculty on the recommendation of the president.
The governors represent diverse backgrounds which provide valuable input during board deliberations. Although members bring to the board the views of various constituencies, there are no advocates for any one group. Decisions are made in the best overall interests of the university and in support of UBC's mission to be a world renowned institution of higher education and research.
SHIRLEY CHAN, chair
of UBC's Board of Governors and manager of Non-Market Housing, City of Vancouver,
was appointed to the board in 1992. Educated in Ontario and B.C., she received
a master's degree in environmental studies from Toronto's York University in 1978.
Chan has served as a private consultant and as an environmental and community
planner. She was the chief of staff to the mayor of Vancouver between 1981 and
1986 and executive assistant to the president of BCIT responsible for research
planning, community and media relations, board support coordination and fundraising.
Chan has been a director of VanCity Savings Credit Union since 1987 and served
as chair from 1993 to 1995. She is also a director of Citizens Trust and vice-chair
of VanCity Enterprises. In 1993, the Alumni Association of Simon Fraser University
presented Chan with the Outstanding Alumni Award for service to the community.
She gained national recognition in the late 1960s for her leadership role in obtaining
changes to Canada's housing program.
JOANNE EMERMAN, a
professor of Anatomy, was elected by faculty to the board in 1996. She received
her PhD and post-doctoral training at the University of California at Berkeley
before joining UBC in 1980. Emerman has served as acting head of the Dept. of
Anatomy and as chair of the Faculty of Medicine Curriculum Evaluation Committee.
She was a member of UBC's Faculty Association executive and also served on the
university's Senior Appointments Committee and Faculty Development Mentoring Network.
Currently, Emerman is a member of UBC's Faculty Pension Board and Advisory Committee
for the Women's Resources Centre. In addition, she is deputy chair of the Scientific
Advisory Committee of the British Columbia Health Research Foundation. A previous
scholar of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, she presently serves on the
boards of several international associations for cancer research.
KEN GEORGETTI, president
and CEO of the B.C. Federation of Labour, the central labour body representing
340,000 members in the province, was appointed to the board in 1995. Georgetti
also serves as provincial vice-president of the two-million member Canadian Labour
Congress and as board chair of the Working Opportunity Fund. Active in community
service, he is a board member of ABC Canada, a foundation which promotes literacy,
and is the honorary chair of the Association of Learning Disabled Adults. Currently
a member of the Treaty Negotiation Advisory Committee on Land Claims, Georgetti
has also served as co-chair of the Premier's Summit on Trade and Economic Opportunity.
Formerly a member of the dean's advisory council in UBC's Faculty of Commerce
and Business Administration, Georgetti is a member of the dean's advisory committee
in the Faculty of Law.
TARA IVANOCHKO,
an undergraduate student working toward an honours BSc degree in Oceanography
and Biology, was elected by students for a one-year term to the board in 1996.
Ivanochko studied at Memorial University in Newfoundland and at the University
of Saskatchewan in Regina before transferring to UBC in 1994. Since arriving on
campus, she has been active with CiTR student radio and served on the executive
of student council as AMS Director of Finance in 1995/96. For the past seven years,
Ivanochko has performed volunteer work for women's centres across Canada.
HAROLD KALKE, president
and owner of Kalico Developments Ltd., a real estate development and investment
company, was appointed to the board in 1994. Kalke received a BSc in civil engineering
from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.
His real estate development projects are widely acclaimed as being critical elements
in the re-establishment of "neighbourhood" and have won community and heritage
awards, including the Ethics In Action Award. He is a member and director of the
Urbanarium Development Society, a non-profit organization devoted to increasing
understanding of urban planning and development issues and a member of the Advisory
Planning Commission for the District of West Vancouver.
ROSLYN KUNIN, executive
director of the Laurier Institution, was appointed to the board in 1993. She was
educated in Quebec and Ontario and received a PhD in economics from UBC in 1970.
Kunin was a visiting assistant professor in agricultural economics at the university
in 1972-73, before joining Employment and Immigration Canada as a regional economist
where she served for 20 years. She also sits as a member of the National Statistics
Council and on the board of the Vancouver Stock Exchange. Kunin has been honoured
by the Association of Professional Economists of B.C. on several occasions with
the Crystal Ball Award for forecasting the Canadian economy. In 1994, she received
the YWCA Women of Distinction Award for management and the professions and an
honorary degree from the University of Victoria.
CHENG-HAN LEE, an undergraduate
student majoring in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, was elected by students for
a one-year term to the board in 1996. Lee is currently the AMS safety commissioner
and has helped produce the student council's first safety audit report. As a Safer
Campus peer educator, he has also been active in raising students' awareness on
the issues of acquaintance sexual assault and personal safety.
TONG LOUIE, chair and
CEO of H.Y. Louie Co. Ltd., was appointed to the board in 1990. A UBC graduate
(Agriculture '38), Louie is also chair, president and CEO of London Drugs Ltd.,
and vice-chair and director of IGA Canada Ltd. He has been named the Entrepreneur
of the Year for B.C., the Vancouver YMCA's Outstanding Community Volunteer Leader,
Man of the Year by local service groups and a member of the Order of Canada. Numerous
other honours include the Order of B.C., the Knight of the Golden Pencil Award,
the highest award bestowed by the food industry in Canada, and the Variety Club's
Golden Heart Award which he received for his fund-raising activities on behalf
of B.C.'s Children's Hospital. He received an honorary LLD from UBC in 1990 and
was presented with the 1993 Individual Philanthropic Leadership Award by the Association
of Fund Raising Professionals of B.C. for helping to improve the lives of British
Columbians.
LOIS MOEN, an administrative
clerk in the Faculty of Medicine, Dean's Office, Postgraduate Education, was first
elected by staff to the board in 1993 and was re-elected to a second three-year
term in 1996. She has held her current position since 1989 after joining UBC a
year earlier as a clerk in the Telecommunications Dept. Moen has served as a shop
steward for CUPE 2950 for the past six years, and has sat on the union local's
executive since 1991.
MICHAEL PARTRIDGE,
who served as regional vice-president of employee benefits for London Life Insurance
Co. before his retirement, was appointed to the board in 1991. A UBC graduate
(BCom '59), he has served as vice-president and president of the UBC Alumni Association
and was co-chair of the David Lam Management Research Endowment Fund. Partridge
received the Blythe Eagles Volunteer Service Award in 1987 and was a recipient
of the 1990 UBC Alumni 75th Anniversary Award of Merit.
PHILIP RESNICK, a
Political Science professor, was elected by faculty to the board in 1996. A graduate
of Montreal's McGill University and the University of Toronto, he joined UBC in
1971 and served a term as a UBC Senator between 1990 and 1993. In addition to
being a frequent media commentator on public affairs, Resnick is the author of
six books and numerous academic articles, and is a recipient of the Harold Innis
Book Award. His major commitment as a member of the board is to the defence of
the principles of a liberal university.
WILLIAM SAUDER, chancellor
of the university, is a UBC graduate (BCom '48) and chair and CEO of International
Forest Products and Sauder Industries Limited. He was a member of UBC's Board
of Governors from 1981 to 1987, and served as chair of the board for the last
two years of his term. He received an honorary degree from UBC in 1990. Long-time
patrons of the university, the Sauder family has supported several medical science
initiatives at the university. The Sauder Family Chair in Pediatric Diseases and
the Sauder Family Chair in Viral Diseases of Children are named in recognition
of the family's philanthropy. In addition to his activities in the forestry sector,
Sauder currently serves as a member of the board of directors and executive committee
of the Toronto-Dominion Bank.
DAVID STRANGWAY, president
and vice-chancellor of UBC, became a member of the board upon his appointment
as president in 1985. The son of medical missionaries, he attended school in Angola
and Rhodesia before entering the University of Toronto (U of T) in 1952 where
he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics. Strangway was a faculty
member at the University of Colorado and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
before joining the Physics Dept. at U of T in 1968. In 1970, he became chief of
NASA's Geophysics Branch, responsible for the geological aspects of the Apollo
missions. Strangway was recently named an Officer of the Order of Canada.
MARION YORK, a learning
assistance teacher, was appointed to the board in 1994. York, who received a BEd,
MEd and a diploma in Special Education from UBC, currently provides language support
services in French and English to students with special needs at John Peterson
Secondary School in Kamloops. She also works with community resource personnel
to provide information and workshops concerning children with learning difficulties.
York has served on the Council for Exceptional Children as the executive member
in charge of educational technology and sits on the board of the Thompson-Nicola
Family Resource Society.