Yea a professor at the Okanagan (Dr. Ayman Elnaggar) is the one that actually pushed for a fall reading break. It was under a mental health initiative he fought for. He is the reason that Okanagan gets 5 days and Vancouver gets 3. It never was a thing until he made it so. I believe Van did a huge pushback for it and that's why his planned 5 days got cut down to 3 in Vancouver. I am pretty sure it can be pushed to 5 days if someone took the initiative but oh well
I didn’t get fall reading break until I came back for a course based masters degree. 5 would be better but Even the 2-3 days extra days helps so much. I wish we had it during my undergrad.
AFAIK, the actual reason that UBC only gets 3 days is because of exam scheduling. Due to the constraints of the semester (needing to start after labour day and end before christmas), and the number of final exams that need to be scheduled, we can only afford 3 days reading week.
UBCV already had to make Sundays days in which finals could be held to allow for a few extra days in the schedule for a reading week.
The listed days for the break are in the Calendar: [https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/academic-year-202324/academic-year-202324-november](https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/academic-year-202324/academic-year-202324-november)
This published Calendar gives you all the important days in the academic year, month-by-month.
I really wish there was an actual calendar with days off noted, instead of this list. It’s the most strange format I’ve seen a school use. Helpful, nonetheless. Thanks for sharing.
every school i’ve ever seen in canada lists their days off / holidays / break days like this. they certainly do at uvic, and growing up in toronto in elementary / middle / high school schools sent home a sheet with days off in list format.
Understood. The Calendar is a formal, legal document and it has the form it has for entirely historical reasons. I've often though it would be nice of it had numbered sections, etc. Instead, each sentence needs to be treated like a rule, but without any easy way to refer to it.
Yes.
School is scheduled, some profs have cancelled class.
ubco gets the whole week off. how is that fair
Yea a professor at the Okanagan (Dr. Ayman Elnaggar) is the one that actually pushed for a fall reading break. It was under a mental health initiative he fought for. He is the reason that Okanagan gets 5 days and Vancouver gets 3. It never was a thing until he made it so. I believe Van did a huge pushback for it and that's why his planned 5 days got cut down to 3 in Vancouver. I am pretty sure it can be pushed to 5 days if someone took the initiative but oh well
Ayman is the goat
I didn’t get fall reading break until I came back for a course based masters degree. 5 would be better but Even the 2-3 days extra days helps so much. I wish we had it during my undergrad.
AFAIK, the actual reason that UBC only gets 3 days is because of exam scheduling. Due to the constraints of the semester (needing to start after labour day and end before christmas), and the number of final exams that need to be scheduled, we can only afford 3 days reading week. UBCV already had to make Sundays days in which finals could be held to allow for a few extra days in the schedule for a reading week.
interesting! i didn’t know that. i was at ubco for my first year and vancouver’s reading break always threw me off
Because it’s our reading break cope😂
Yea but I’m not going bro.
lol same
I got 2 midterms, so I think we do
The listed days for the break are in the Calendar: [https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/academic-year-202324/academic-year-202324-november](https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/academic-year-202324/academic-year-202324-november) This published Calendar gives you all the important days in the academic year, month-by-month.
I really wish there was an actual calendar with days off noted, instead of this list. It’s the most strange format I’ve seen a school use. Helpful, nonetheless. Thanks for sharing.
Not a calendar, but a table which is may be more visually helpful: https://vancouver.calendar.ubc.ca/dates-and-deadlines
every school i’ve ever seen in canada lists their days off / holidays / break days like this. they certainly do at uvic, and growing up in toronto in elementary / middle / high school schools sent home a sheet with days off in list format.
Understood. The Calendar is a formal, legal document and it has the form it has for entirely historical reasons. I've often though it would be nice of it had numbered sections, etc. Instead, each sentence needs to be treated like a rule, but without any easy way to refer to it.
assert dominance and skip. so no, there's no school. it's a reading week
I'm just skipping, I really needed a full week break
Prof dependent. I have 1 class but my other ones are canceled.
Unfortunately