UBC Learning Exchange reopens and marks 20 years in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
October 13, 2020
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You might miss the UBC Learning Exchange as you walk by the three-story, red brick building near Main and Keefer in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, unremarkable but for the UBC-blue awning. Yet behind the nondescript front is something unexpected.
Over the last 20 years the Learning Exchange has quietly worked to be a trusted part of one of the most complex neighbourhoods in North America, an important academic unit of the university, and a model for university-community engagement.
Learn more about their work and the stories of some of the many “learning exchanges” that have happened there, from faculty, staff and community members.
UBC Learning Exchange by the numbers
- 2,500 Downtown Eastside residents per year join a range of free educational programs
- 80+ Faculty per year partner on teaching, learning, research and knowledge exchange projects
- 40+ Community groups collaborate regularly on a variety of projects
- 1000+ Students per year are introduced to community-based learning opportunities
- 200+ Graduate and undergraduate students participate in in-depth community-based learning
- 10 full-time staff, 2 faculty, 4-8 student staff including graduate research assistants
- Our people
- Research
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