As a university venue for interdisciplinary conversation, Green College is open to faculty and staff members of UBC and other local universities. We also welcome members of the non-university local community to our public events, which are widely advertised in social media.
UBC faculty and staff, and others, are invited to attend publicly advertised events at the College, to join the College residential community for dinner (with a reservation), and to bring guests—colleagues, graduate students, friends, academic visitors, etc.—with them. They are also invited to propose future academic events and programming for the College, by contacting the Principal in the first instance.
UBC faculty and staff who wish to learn more about the College or to explore opportunities for partnership between the College and their unit or research program are warmly encouraged to contact the Principal, as are members of local organizations outside UBC who see comparable opportunities.
Within the much larger population of regular or occasional visitors to the College, about 100 persons at a time have the status of Members of Common Room at Green College, either as UBC Faculty and Staff Members of Common Room or as Members of Common Room at Large (others).
Why become a Member of Common Room at Green College?
Unlike some other kinds of college fellowship, Membership of the Common Room at Green College is a purely voluntary commitment, made by individuals who wish to participate in and to advance the intellectual conviviality of the College, both as a partly residential university community and as a public cultural venue (heraldic motto: “Ideas and Friendship”).
As a Member of Common Room at Green College, you will
- Be notified of all upcoming events at the College, by weekly e-mail listings or other means
- Be kept up-to-date with important College news and receive a copy of the Green College Annual Report & Society Magazine, published in the spring of each year (for the previous academic year)
- Be invited to the annual Welcome Dinner, Winter Gala, Founders’ Dinner and Spring Gala, and to other special events
- Have access to College financial and other support for interdisciplinary, extra- or co-curricular, research and/or community outreach projects / lecture and discussion series / performance series / workshops / conferences / academic hospitality, etc. subject to routine processes of College academic and administrative review
- Be eligible to have complimentary use of meeting-rooms and standard a/v facilities (with catering by the Green College Dining Society, if required, at standard rates) for suitable non-College academic and/or social events that they wish to host at the College, subject to availability of space and approval by the Principal. (This entitlement includes the option of holding your own wedding wedding ceremony and/or reception at the College!)
Expectations
Members of Common Room are expected to involve themselves directly in the academic and social life of the College by
- Regularly attending lectures and other public events at the College
- Attending and, as opportunity arises, presenting their own work and/or co-hosting other presenters in the Tuesday 5 pm (or other) public series at the College
- Coming to dinner at least once a month, on average, between September and April, not counting invitational gala events
- Being accessible to Resident Members and other members of the College community, past and present, who may wish to consult them on matters in which they have expertise
- Being available to serve on College committees, at the invitation of the Principal, President of the Green College Dining Society, or Chair of the Green College Advisory Board
- Advising the Principal and Green College Staff, upon request
It is also expected that they will assist in
- Bringing College events and programs to the attention of students, colleagues, and others likely to be interested in them
- Advertising the College to potential Resident Members (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, visiting scholars) and guests
- Introducing other members of the University and wider local community to the College and, where appropriate, recommending them as possible Members of Common Room
- Promoting the College by word of mouth as a venue for university-sponsored conferences, meetings, catered events, etc.\
- Sustaining the Green College Society as a network for those with continuing attachments to the College
Eligibility
A Member of Common Room at Green College will normally both
- be a faculty or staff member of UBC or of another local university, or (in the case of non-university Members of Common Room) a resident of the Lower Mainland of BC or neighbouring island
and
- have established some voluntary connection with the College before being invited to become a Member of Common Room (e.g. by organizing an event or lecture-series, by nominating a Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor, by participating in College programs at the invitation of another member of the College.)
The invitation to become a Member of Common Room is made by the Principal.
Membership of Common Room is renewable annually at the pleasure of both parties. Past Members of Common Room continue to be associated with the College as Members of the Green College Society.
Interested in becoming a Member of Common Room at Green College?
Contact one of the current Faculty Members or the Principal to find out how you can become involved in the life of the College
Members of Common Room at Large
| Airini | Faculty of Human, Social and Educational Development, Thompson Rivers University | ||
| Bath, Stephen | Community member | ||
| Diggens, John | Chair of the Green College Advisory Board | ||
| Garrity, Erin | |||
| Grauer, The Hon. Christopher | Justice of the BC Supreme Court | ||
| McIntyre, Scott | Member of the Green College Advisory Board | ||
| Picherak, Frances | President, Petrine Consulting | ||
| Wake, Hal | |||
| Yazigi, Maya | |||
| Yip, Wendy | University Ambassador | ||
UBC Faculty and Staff Members of Common Room
| Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad | iSchool / Department of Linguistics / Department of Computer Science | ||
| Aloni, Erez | Peter A. Allard School of Law | ||
| Beasley-Murray, Jonathan | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | ||
| Bedi, Robinder | Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education | ||
| Boley, Aaron | Department of Physics and Astronomy | ||
| Bose, Sarika | Department of English | ||
| Bowers, Katherine | Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies | ||
| Bullard, Julia | iSchool | ||
| Byers, Michael | Department of Political Science | ||
| Byrne, Fionn | School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | ||
| Carty, Kenneth | Department of Political Science | ||
| Catungal, John Paul | The Social Justice Institute | ||
| Clough, David | Sauder School of Business | ||
| Coulthard, Lisa | Department of Theatre and Film | ||
| d'Entremont, Agnes | Mechanical Engineering | ||
| Fisher, Donald | Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training | ||
| Fu, Hu | Department of Computer Science | ||
| Fujiwara, Makoto | TRIUMF | ||
| Gaertner, David | First Nations and Indigenous Studies | ||
| Gassner, Florian | Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies | ||
| Gilbert, Carolyn | Professor Emeritus of Audiology and Speech Sciences | ||
| Gilbert, John | Professor Emeritus of Audiology and Speech Sciences | ||
| Glidden-Tracey, Cynthia | Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education | ||
| Godfrey, Sima | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | ||
| Goldbach, Toby | Peter A. Allard School of Law | ||
| Golovin, Kevin | School of Engineering (UBCO) | ||
| Grace, John | Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biological Engineering | ||
| Grace, Sherrill | Professor Emeritus of English | ||
| Hall, Judith | Foundation Fellow of Green College and Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics | ||
| Hastie, Bethany | Peter A. Allard School of Law | ||
| Hodges, Nicola | School of Kineisology | ||
| Huddart Kennedy, Emily | Department of Sociology | ||
| Huot, Suzanne | Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy | ||
| Hutton, Tom | Centre for Human Settlements, First Nations Studies Program | ||
| Johnston, Richard | Department of Political Science | ||
| Karlinsky, Harry | Department of Psychiatry | ||
| Keddie, Anthony | Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies | ||
| Kunz, Nadja | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs | ||
| Kuus, Merje | Department of Geography | ||
| Levell, Nicola | Department of Anthropology | ||
| Leyton-Brown, Kevin | Computer Science | ||
| Macfadyen, Leah | Educational Technology Program | ||
| Maier, Harry | Vancouver School of Theology | ||
| Malakaj, Ervin | Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies | ||
| Martin-Matthews, Anne | Department of Sociology | ||
| Matthews, Ralph | Department of Sociology | ||
| Mazawi, André | Department of Educational Studies | ||
| McCarty, Matthew | Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies | ||
| Merivale, Patricia | Professor Emeritus of English | ||
| Molina Hutt, Carlos | Department of Civil Engineering | ||
| Moran, Patrick | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | ||
| Morton, David | Department of History | ||
| Murphy, Anne | Department of Asian Studies | ||
| Paltin, Judith | Department of English | ||
| Plewes, Katherine | Division of Infectious Disease | ||
| Poudrier, Ève | School of Music | ||
| Pryce, Paula | Department of Anthropology | ||
| Ramana, M.V. | Liu Institute for Global Issues | ||
| Reynolds, Graham | Peter A. Allard School of Law | ||
| Sharon, Rena | School of Music | ||
| Shroff, Farah | Department of Family Practice | ||
| Shelton, Anthony | Department of Anthropology and Sociology / Director, Museum of Anthropology | ||
| Singh, Anubhav Pratap | Faculty of Land and Food Systems | ||
| Stevens, Sara | School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | ||
| Suedfeld, Peter | Professor Emeritus of Psychology | ||
| Swei, Omar | Department of Civil Engineering | ||
| Tseng, Michelle | Department of Botany / Department of Zoology | ||
| Turin, Mark | Department of Anthropology | ||
| Vertinsky, Ilan | Sauder School of Business | ||
| Vertinsky, Patricia | School of Kinesiology | ||
| Walker, Jude | Department of Educational Studies | ||
| Walsh, Shannon | Department of Theatre and Film | ||
| White, Matthew | Early Music Vancouver | ||
| Wilbur, Kerry | Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences | ||
| Williams, Ian | Creative Writing Program | ||
| Wylie, Alison | Department of Philosophy | ||
| Wynn, Graeme | Department of Geography | ||
| Zhang, Gaoheng | Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies | ||
| Zhao, Jiaying | Department of Psychology | ||