The School of Social Science was split in September 1956; Dean Henry Angus retired as Head the same year. A new criminology department was added to the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, forming the School of Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology. Harry Hawthorne, the Head of the Department of Anthropology, became Head of the new School. The second half of the spilt of the School of Social Science saw the formation of the School of Economics and Political Science. By 1958 the School of Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology was referred to as a Department.

Born in Penticton, B.C., Gordon Douglas McGregor graduated from UBC with a BA in French and Theatre in 1970. He completed graduate work at Princeton (MA 1970, Pd.D. 1978). After teaching French at Colgate University, he joined the Department of French at UBC in 1981, where he remained until he died in 1986.

Abraham Jedidiah Rogatnick was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 27, 1923. He served in Europe with the United States Army during the Second World War and fought at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. After the war ended in 1945, Rogatnick was discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant. In 1948, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology cum laude from Harvard College. Having been awarded a Fulbright scholarship, Rogatnick studied under Walter Gropius at Harvard Graduate School of Design and obtained his Master of Architecture degree in 1953. Emigrating to Vancouver, Canada, in 1955, Rogatnick subsequently became a naturalized Canadian citizen. Rogatnick began his professional career working as a designer for architect James Lawrence in Boston from 1952 to 1954.
After his move to Vancouver, Rogatnick worked as an architect for Gardiner, Thornton, Gathe and Associates from 1955 to 1959. During this period, he assisted in founding Vancouver's New Design Gallery with his friend, future Vancouver Art Gallery Curator Alvin Balkind. This institution had a profound influence on the arts in Western Canada as the city's first gallery devoted solely to contemporary art. Rogatnick remained on the Board of Directors of the New Design Gallery until 1966. He also worked as an exclusive advisor and consultant to various Canadian arts organizations, including the Canada Council, the City of Vancouver's Design Panel and the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. He also served as Director of the National Gallery of Canada's Architectural Construction Programme. At the same time, that institution planned its new Ottawa premises during the early 1970s. In 1959, Rogatnick began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Architecture, teaching design and Architectural History. He was made an Associate Professor in 1964 and a Full Professor in 1968. With the resignation of Vancouver Art Gallery Director Anthony Emery in 1974, Rogatnick was appointed Interim Director by the Board of Trustees until a full-time replacement could be found. His tenure at the gallery coincided with a one-year leave of absence from his duties at UBC. Rogatnick had first become associated with the gallery's administration as a member of the Exhibition Committee in 1962. From 1962 to 1965, he was a member of the Executive Council and served as its Vice-President from 1964 to 1965. Rogatnick held the position of Interim-Director from August of 1974 to August of 1975 when Luke Rombout succeeded him. Rogatnick was responsible for providing conceptual leadership to all areas of the Vancouver Art Gallery during his tenure as Interim Director. His specific responsibilities included policy-making, funding and fund-raising, as well as exhibition planning and organizing. All staffing decisions and the supervision of all staff activities were the ultimate responsibility of the Interim Director. Rogatnick also ensured that the gallery adhered to the professionally accepted acquisition, preservation, research, interpretation, and exhibition practices.
Returning to his duties at the School of Architecture in September 1975, Rogatnick remained at the UBC until his retirement in 1985. Afterwards, he served as a consultant for various local arts and architecture endeavours, including Concord Pacific's public art program in 1991. Rogatnick also continued to act as a benefactor of the Emily Carr Institute and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. In his retirement, Rogatnick pursued a second career in drama and the performing arts. He took up acting in 1998 and appeared in a 2001 Vancouver Playhouse production of Fiddler on the Roof. In 2000, the Western Front Society staged a dance performance he conceived entitled Descent to the Underworld. In addition, Rogatnick served as an informal advisor to the mayoral campaign of Sam Sullivan during the 2005 Vancouver civic election. His support for discretionary density urban planning and supervised injection sites and his opposition to a ward-based municipal system in the city influenced Sullivan's policies as Mayor of Vancouver. He is also memorialized with the Abraham Rogatnick Library at the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, named after him for his work on the Board of Directors and his gift to the institution. Rogatnick died on August 28, 2009, at the age of 85.

Charles A. Rowles was born in 1915 and earned his BSA and MSc from the University of Saskatchewan and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He joined UBCʹs Department of Agronomy in 1946 as Associate Professor of Soils, after working as an instructor at the University of Saskatchewan and as Associate Professor at Ontario Agricultural College. He was promoted to full professor in 1955. That same year, the Faculty of Agriculture was re‐organized, and Rowles joined the Department of Soil Science. The following year, he became head of the Department, replacing D.G. Laird; he remained in that position until his retirement in 1980.
During his tenure, both Rowles and the Department of Soil Science were involved in various initiatives at the provincial and federal levels regarding the study, classification, and conservation of soils in British Columbia and Canada. Among these were the BC Soil Science Lead Committee (one of several committees struck in the 1960ʹs to advise the provincial government on scientific matters); the BC. Lime Committee; the federal Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Act (1961); and the National Soil Survey. At UBC, Rowles was also involved in several committees, particularly the Menʹs Athletic Committee and the Winter Sports Centre Management Committee.

Coolie Verner was born on April 25, 1917, in Portsmouth, Ohio, the son of an American military officer. His family were old-established tobacco farmers in Virginia. Verner attended the College of William and Mary in Virginia, receiving an A.B. in 1937 and an A.M. in 1950. He received his M.A. and Ed.D. from Columbia University, New York, in 1951 and 1952, respectively. Verner spent two years studying art in Paris and one year at the University of London on a Fulbright Fellowship, 1952-1953. Between 1942 and 1947, Verner served in the U.S. Army, advancing from private to captain. During his service in the Army, he became an expert in bomb disposal and has been personally thanked by Queen Elizabeth for defusing a bomb in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Verner taught adult education at the University of Virginia from 1947-1950. From 1953-1961 he was Professor of Adult Education at Florida State University. He joined the Faculty of Education, UBC, in 1961, where he taught adult education until his retirement in 1977. On October 12, 1979, Professor Verner died at his home on Mayne Island, B.C.
Verner's contributions to scholarship lay in three fields of endeavour: adult education, rural sociology, and the history of cartography and carto-bibliography. As an adult education professor, Verner helped create and develop the field as an academic discipline. He wrote over 170 works and lectured on the subject in Canada, the U.S., and countries as far away as Australia and New Zealand. Under his guidance, UBC became recognized as one of the world's foremost centres for adult education. As a rural sociologist, Verner directed studies for the Canadian government on the Okanagan and declining rural life in Canada. He also acted as a consultant to countries overseas, and he was a Canada Council Fellow 1968-1969. Equal if not greater than his interest in these two areas was Verner's passion for the history of cartography and carto-bibliography. His first publications in the field were studies in the 1950s on the early maps of Virginia. His last book was a historical cartographic work, The Northpart of America. Verner collected maps and kept detailed carto-bibliographic descriptions of them. In addition, many of the thousands of other maps he examined in his research. He was particularly interested in developing a research methodology for the study and description of early printed maps.

Craig Miller joined the English Department at the University of British Columbia in 1947, after receiving his post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan and teaching for four years at the secondary school level. He was involved in several areas apart from his professorial duties, including various lecture committees, campus ministry groups, and the Humanities Association of Canada. He served with the Department until his retirement in 1980. At that time, he was honoured with the title Associate Professor Emeritus.

The University of British Columbia's Department of Mechanical Engineering traces its origins back to 1908 and the applied science courses offered by the institution's predecessor, McGill University College of B.C. When the University of British Columbia opened its doors in 1915, it included a Department of Mechanical Engineering as part of the College of Applied Science. However, the department consisted of only Lawrence Killam and several shop demonstrators. However, it lacked any full professors or a department head. From these humble beginnings, the department has become a leading teaching and researching unit within the university. Its engineering graduates have made significant contributions to the development of British Columbia and beyond.

Irene Rebrin was born to Russian parents in Peking China. She fled to Canada from Brazil and was branded a "security risk" by Conservative governing party of the day. Rebrin was working at UBC at the Deparmtent of Slavonic languages.

Irina Reid was born in Denmark to Danish / Russian parents. Reid lived in China as a child and moved to Canada after World War II. She eventually arrived in Vancouver and taught Russian at the Department of Slavonic Studies at UBC. She married Cyril Reid of the Department of Chemistry.

Donald MacKay was born in Barrie, Ontario. He completed a B.A. (1929) and M.A. (1930) at Queen's University and his Ph.D. at Stanford University (1934). MacKay then taught marine studies in zoology at the University of Connecticut, Stanford University, and the University of Hawaii. He then served as assistant director of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission (1943-1946). MacKay joined the University of British Columbia's Department of Zoology in 1946. The following year moved to the Department of Philosophy and Psychology as an assistant professor of psychology. He remained in the department until his retirement in 1970. MacKay was active in international student and International House programs on campus and sat on the Vancouver International House Board of Directors. He also served on the Board of Trustees for the International House Association in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Born in Cular, Saskatchewan, in 1910, Lloyd Douglas Hayward attended the University of Saskatchewan, where he earned his BA in Honours Chemistry in 1943. In 1949 he earned a Ph.D. from McGill University. Hayward joined the University of British Columbia Dept. of Chemistry as an assistant professor in 1951. He remained until his retirement in 1984. In 1956 Hayward married Margaret Sage, (1919-) Social Worker and SFU Assistant Professor in Psychology. Hayward devoted much of his time to popularizing chemistry after retiring from UBC, particularly among school children. Hayward began giving chemistry lectures/demonstrations as part of a Do-It-Yourself Chemistry (DIYC) program in elementary schools in April 1986. After visiting several more schools, a story about Hayward and his school presentations appeared in the Richmond Review. Shortly after that, he began writing a regular science column for the newspaper. Hayward continued visiting elementary schools around the Lower Mainland and throughout the province. He gave free lecture demonstrations as part of the DIYC program. The program was sponsored by the Vancouver Section of the Chemical Institute of Canada. The underlying philosophy of DIYC was quite simple. The experiments were to be done safely by an 11-year-old in the modern kitchen. Hayward wanted to "avoid stinks, bangs, magic and politics." The primary goal, according to Hayward, was to "show students, teachers, and parents that chemistry is fun, interesting and safe. Without knowledge of chemistry, no other science or technology can advance. It is essential for our future."
In 1988, in conjunction with Gordon Bates from UBC's Department of Chemistry, Hayward developed a 30-minute videotape and manual intended to allow Do-It-Yourself Chemistry to reach more schools and help to involve chemical professionals from across Canada in similar programs. Subsequent demand for an expanded and enhanced manual resulted in a second publication in 1990. The experiments included in that booklet came from Hayward's columns that originally appeared in the Richmond Review, the Vernon Daily News and the Alaska Highway News. Hayward and Bates continued their collaboration with the publication of Its Elementary: Investigating the Chemical World (1994). In addition to his in-class lectures-demonstrations, columns and publications, Hayward also had a bi-weekly radio program on CFMI in Vancouver. By 1997 DIYC presentations had involved approximately 18,000 students in grades 4-7 in BC schools. An additional 25 workshops for teachers and parents were also staged. In addition, Hayward served as chairman of the Vancouver and Lower Mainland Regional Science Fairs and on the steering committee for Science Olympics for British Columbia. In recognition of his efforts in popularizing chemistry among youngsters, Hayward received the Eve Savory Award for science communication in 1991. The following year, he received the UBC Alumni Associations Faculty Citation Award, which is given to faculty members who have given outstanding service to the general community.

The Order of St. Helena was founded in 1945 by nine sisters who were former members of the Order of St. Anne.

Clarinetist, composer and ethnomusicologist Elliot Weisgarber (December 5, 1919 - December 31, 2001) was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He studied clarinet and composition at the Eastman School of Music where he earned his Bachelor and Masters degrees in music as well as a Performer's Certificate in clarinet. Following his graduation in 1943, Weisgarber spent one year teaching at Colby Junior College in New Hampshire before moving on to a sixteen-year career at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. In 1960, he was invited to join the faculty of the newly-formed music department at the University of British Columbia. Weisgarber's relocation to the west coast helped nourish his well-developed interest in Asian cultures and he spent a great deal of time in Japan studying the classical music of that country and, in particular, developing expertise in shakuhachi (vertical bamboo flute) playing. He retired from UBC in 1984. Weisgarber established the music publishing firm Elliot Weisgarber Associates in 1994 with his daughter Karen Suzanne Smithson and remained active as a composer until his death. When he died in 2001 at the age of 82, Weisgarber had created a catalogue of 450 compositions including chamber music, songs, orchestral works and scores for film, radio and television.

By 1944 the B.C. Medical Association, the Provincial Government, and the university actively discussed establishing a Faculty of Medicine. In 1949, following some controversy over the school's location and the availability of hospital beds, a compromise was reached. As a result, the Faculty of Medicine was established at U.B.C. Dr. Myron M. Weaver, formerly Assistant Dean at the University of Minnesota Medical School was appointed Dean in July 1949. Administrative offices and classrooms were established in temporary army huts. Clinical training took place off-campus at Vancouver General Hospital and other Health Centre's designated by agreement as "Teaching Hospitals." U.B.C. admitted its first class of 60 medical students in September 1950.
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia, which includes a Medical School, a School of Rehabilitation Sciences (Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy) and a School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, is closely affiliated with the prominent Vancouver teaching hospitals (St. Paul's, Shaughnessy and Grace Hospitals; Vancouver General Hospital and Health Sciences Centre; Providence Health Care; Children's and Women's Health Centre of B.C and the B.C. Cancer Agency) and the Vancouver / Richmond Health Board and an additional sixty hospitals throughout B.C.
A set of values guides the Faculty: Excellence, Integrity, Discovery, People, Learning and Partnership. In turn, these values are supported through the Faculty's mission statement, which is to advance society's knowledge, understanding, and health through education, scholarship, and health care, with excellence being an essential criterion for success. The appointment and retention of faculty members include the responsibilities to recruit faculty members who have an interest in, and talent for, education and research; to clearly define and consistently apply conditions of appointment, reappointment and promotion; and to develop and fairly use a system of remuneration, rewards, and recognition distinct from promotion alone.
The Faculty of Medicine is hierarchically organized, with the Dean of Medicine at its pinnacle. Reporting directly to the Dean are the Administration, the Associate Deans, the Departments and Schools, and the Research Centre's (including the B.C. Institute for Children's and Women's Health, Biomedical Research Centre, the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, the Neurodegenerative Disorders Centre, the Respiratory Disease Centre, the U.B.C. Centre for Disease Control, and the Vancouver Vascular Biology Research Centre). The Area of Administration includes the Directors of Faculty Affairs and Administration; Finance; Inter-institutional Planning; Planning, Construction and Space Utilization; the Sr. Faculty and the Faculty Development Officers. The Associate Deans are in turn responsible for Admissions. Undergraduate Education (which also has an Assistant Dean responsible for Faculty Educational Development), Student Affairs, Postgraduate (Clinical) Education, and research (which is additionally supported by four Assistant Deans, Research each of whom is the Vice President, Research in their home teaching hospital).

Frank Fairchild Wesbrook, the first president of the University of British Columbia, was born in Brant County, Ontario, on July 12, 1868. In 1887, he graduated from the University of Manitoba, and the following year received a master's degree from the same institution. Wesbrook received his M.D. from McGill University in 1890. Subsequently, he spent a year at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. In 1892, he was elected John Walker student in pathology at Cambridge. He was appointed Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Minnesota in 1895, and in 1906 he became the first full-time Dean of Medicine there. While at the University of Minnesota, his chief field of work was in bacteriology relating to public health. In 1913, he accepted the post of President of the nascent UBC. He guided the University through the first difficult years, hiring staff and striving to make the University successful. Unfortunately, the boom that had lasted for a decade in B.C. collapsed with the outbreak of war in 1914. As a result, work on the new campus "begun at Point Grey to replace the Fairview campus used by UBC's predecessor McGill University College of B.C." was suspended for several years.
Consequently, when the University of British Columbia began operations in 1915, it had to do so in Fairview's less than adequate facilities. As well as his University activities, President Wesbrook was commanding officer of the Officers' Training Corps at UBC. He helped establish the Vancouver Institute, toured the Province examining its resources, and was active in the Patriotic Fund Drive in the Autumn of 1915. Unfortunately, failing health forced him to take a long break from his duties in early 1918. He died on October 20, 1918.

Frank Read was born on March 1, 1911. In the early 1930s, he became an accomplished oarsman with the Vancouver Rowing Club. He went into the hotel industry after a back injury suffered while playing football ended his rowing career. In late 1949, Read agreed to coach the University of British Columbia rowing team, which, at the same time, began a formal cooperation with the Vancouver Rowing Club. In recognition of both institutions, it was decided to call these new members "VRC/UBC" oarsmen. Despite minimal resources for the UBC's fledging rowing program, Read focussed on the importance of training and conditioning and instilling in his athlete's dedication to the sport.
Competing against other top Canadian teams to represent the country at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, the Toronto Argonauts club beat the UBC team. Read's intensive training program soon produced results. His eight-oared crew represented Canada two years later at Vancouver's 1954 British Empire Games. There the team won Canada's first-ever gold medal for the eights. The Duke of Edinburgh invited the group to compete against the world's best at the Henley Regatta in England; the students scored an upset victory over the world champion Russians in the semi-finals. They finished second to the U.S. team in the finals. In 1956 Read led his rowing teams to the Melbourne Olympics, where the coxless four won a gold medal, and the eights came a very close second to capture a silver medal. These were the first Olympic medals won by Canada in rowing.
After a brief retirement (1957-60), Read returned to coach the rowing team at the 1960 Rome Olympics. That year, his eights finished second, earning Canada's only medal at the games. Following the Olympics, Read once again retired, bringing to a close an essential era in this country's rowing history.
Read was also a mentor to those who followed him as rowing coaches. During his first retirement, John Warren coached the UBC team, representing Canada at the 1958 Empire Games in Cardiff, Wales, winning a gold and two silver medals (in the eights, fours, and coxless fours, respectively). Wayne Pretty and Glen Mervyn were on the coaching staff for Canada's rowing teams at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo (resulting in one gold medal in pairs) and the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg.
John Carver, in The Vancouver Rowing Club: A History, 1886-1980, offered the following assessment of Frank Read's accomplishments:
"It was starting with almost nothing, operating on the most meagre budgets. He took his crews to the top international competition and, incidentally, put himself among the top rowing coaches in the world. He had the drive and the patience to stand the rugged twice daily grind in all kinds of weather; he demanded discipline and condition and got them, and he had the knowledge and knew how to impart it to his crews. He will say to himself that the horses in the boats win races, and of course, he is right. However, no sport demands more coaching than crew rowing, and Read supplied it beyond measure." Frank Read died in Vancouver in 1994.

John Jessop was born in Norwich, England. The Jessop family emigrated to Canada in 1846. He was British Columbia's first provincial superintendent of education.

Francis Henry Johnson was born in London, Ontario. After teaching elementary school, he came to the University of British Columbia to take his B.A. (1932) and M.A. (1935). Following service in the armed forces, he completed his B.Paed. (1947) at the University of Toronto and later earned a D.Paed. (1952) also at Toronto. Johnson became Coordinator of Teacher Education for the B.C. Department of Education (1954-1956). In 1956, he came to UBC as a Professor of the History of Education and Director of Elementary Education. He played a significant role in the reorganization of the existing Faculty (formerly Department) of Education. Johnson's publications include the first book to study the history of public education in the province and another which chronicled the life of John Jessop, B.C.'s first Superintendent of Education. Johnson retired from the Faculty in 1973.

Lorne Brown was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1908 but later moved with his family to Vancouver. He taught physical education at Kitsilano High School (1930-40). He worked in YMCA recreation services for the RCAF during World War II. Brown was Superintendent of Physical Education for the provincial Department of Education (1944-46) and served as Director of Health and Physical Education at the Provincial Normal School in Vancouver (1946-55). He earned his BPE (1952) and MA (1954) in Physical Education from Oregon. He joined the faculty of Education in UBC when the Faculty of Education opened that year, holding an associate professor position until his retirement in 1973. Brown served one term on Vancouver's Parks and Recreation Board (1967-68). His long-time enthusiasm for camping began at the YMCA's Camp Elphinstone, beginning in 1925 until he left in 1950 as the camp's co-director. Brown served as president of the BC Camping Association, The Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and the Council of Outdoor Educators. He and his wife, May Brown, ran Camp Deka, a private boys' camp on Deka Lake near 100-Mile House in the Cariboo, from 1961 until he died in 1976.

The British Columbia Women's Studies Association was formally established on February 2, 1975. A formal meeting was held at a Vancouver Community College, Langara. A primary goal of the BCWSA was the establishment of a Women's Research Centre, "independent of any particular educational institution and available for all interested women to utilize."

J.G. Brown was born in Lakefield, Ontario and received his university and theological education in Toronto. After a few years in pastoral work in Ontario, he came to British Columbia and ministered in several congregations. Later, he was appointed to the Principalship of Ryerson Theological College. When, in 1927, Ryerson College and Westminster Hall were merged, he became the first Principal of Union College of British Columbia, affiliated with UBC. Under his administration, the main Union College buildings on campus were erected. He successfully faced the difficult task of guiding the College through the Depression and then World War II. After his retirement in 1948, he lived for three years in Oxford, England, until his return to British Columbia, where he assumed the pastorate of the Church of Our Lord in Victoria.

Provincial legislation passed in November 1973 gave rise to the British Columbia Medical Centre (BCMC). The legislation established a network of hospitals and related health facilities to provide patient care services, health science teaching, and related medical research. BCMC integrated the resources of numerous institutions, including Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Health Science Centre, G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Children's Hospital, B.C. Cancer Institute, St. Paul's Hospital, and Shaughnessy Hospital. The creation of BCMC would have involved a massive expansion of the Shaughnessy Hospital, which generated a great deal of public controversy. As a result, the provincial government disbanded BCMC in 1976 in light of the high cost.

In 1979, the British Columbia Member of the Legislative Assembly Project employed quantitative analysis to prepare a collective biography of the members (MLA's) of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-Third Legislatures.

Kenelm Oswald Lancelot Burridge was born in Malta in 1922. After spending his childhood in Lucknow, India, he was educated in England, and in 1939 he joined the Royal Navy. Burridge served on the battleships HMS Ramillies and Royal Sovereign in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans until 1942. After that, Burridge transferred to the submarine service. He served aboard HMS Splendid when she was sunk off Naples in 1943, and he was captured. Later that year, he escaped to service in the Far East, retiring as a lieutenant in 1946. Burridge entered Exeter College, Oxford, that year and completed his B.A. in 1948, a diploma in Social Anthropology, the following year, and later his B.Litt. (1950) and M.A. (1952) in Anthropology. He then obtained a Ph.D. in that field from Australian National University in 1954. Burridge has conducted fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Malaya (a research fellow at the University of Malaya), Australia, New Hebrides, and India. In addition, he held teaching posts in anthropology and ethnology at Baghdad University and Oxford before joining UBC as an anthropology professor in 1968.
Burridge's main interests were anthropological history and theory, religion, myth, museology, and missiology. In 1988, Burridge served as a visiting lecturer or professor at the University of Western Australia, Princeton University, and International Christian University in Tokyo until his retirement. He received Killam, Guggenheim, and Canada Council, fellowships. In addition, he was named honorary life fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, and the Royal Society of Canada.

William "Bill" Bruneau received undergraduate and graduate degrees in history and education from the University of Saskatchewan in 1964, 1966, and 1968. He took his Ph.D. in History and Education from the University of Toronto in 1972. Bruneau taught full-time in educational studies at the University of British Columbia from 1971 until 2003. He was president of the UBC Faculty Association from 1992 to 1994 and president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) from 1996 to 1998. He continued as an active member of the CAUT's Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee until 2009. He received the Milner Memorial Award from the CAUT Council in 2011 to recognize his wide-ranging and significant contributions to the cause of academic freedom. Bruneau has contributed to the fields of politics, music, education, history and philosophy. His significant publications include a biography of musician Jean Coulthard and a detailed critique of performance indicators in post-secondary education.

John Murdoch Buchanan was born in Steveston, British Columbia and in 1917 was one of the University's earliest graduates. He went into business and, in 1928, joined British Columbia Packers Ltd. Buchanan helped to organize the Alumni Association and became its President in 1949. He served both on UBC's Senate and Board of Governors, and in 1966 he was elected Chancellor. He served as UBC Chancellor until 1969 and, in 1970, received an honorary doctorate.

For twenty-three years, Ronald Eric Burgess was a member of UBC's Department of Physics. He was born in London, England. He entered the University of London in 1935 and, in 1939, obtained his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics. He joined the Radio Research Station staff in Slough, England, in 1939 and carried out a wide range of research interests. In 1954, Burgess was appointed as a full professor in the UBC Department of Physics, securing initial funding for the position through the Defense Research Board of Canada. Burgess remained with the department until he died in 1977.

The Canadian Machine Gun Corps was formed in England in 1917. It was part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force sent to France. It included infantry and cavalry and motor branches. It also included a Canadian machine gun school and depot and reinforcements camp.

The Office of President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia is a position that provides oversight and direction for the University's operation following the strategic framework and recommendations of the Board of Governors and the Senates (Vancouver and Okanagan). The President's duties, powers, responsibilities, and offices are specified under the British Columbia University Act. The commission of the President (63) includes the President as a member of the Board of Governors and chair of the Senates. They are also members of the Senate's standing (permanent) committees, except for the standing committee on appeals. They are a member of each faculty, and in the absence of the chancellor, they must confer degrees in their place. Under the Act (59), the President can recommend appointments and promotions. They may also remove teaching and administrative staff, summon faculty meetings, authorize lectures and instruction in any faculty, and establish any committees the President may consider necessary. The President's duties (62) include preparing and publishing annual reports on the University's progress, highlighting any essential recommendations to the Board of Governors and the Senate and reporting on any matter referred to the President by the Board of Governors or the Senate. In addition, the President must submit an annual budget and present the submissions to the Minister of Education.
Frank F. Wesbrook was recruited as the University's first President in 1913. He continued in this position until he died in 1919. He was succeeded, in turn, by Leonard S. Klinck (1919-1944), Norman A.M. MacKenzie (1944-1962), John B. MacDonald (1962-1967), Walter Gage (1967-1968), Kenneth Hare (1968-1969), Walter Gage (1969-1975), Douglas Kenny (1975-1983), George Pedersen (1983-1985), Robert Smith (1985) and David Strangway (1985-1997), Martha Piper (1997-2006 ), Stephen J. Toope (2006-2014), Arvind Gupta (2014-2015), Martha Piper (once more) (2015-2016), Santa J. Ono (2016-2022), Interim President Deborah Buszard from Oct. 2022-Nov. 2023 and Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon (Nov. 2023-present). The duties and functions of the President's Office have expanded with the growth of the University. Until 1968, the UBC Presidents carried out their responsibilities by assisting various faculty members. In 1968, President Hare appointed William Armstrong, Walter Gage, and William White as acting Deputy Presidents. He delegated the President's Office multiple responsibilities. When Gage became President following Hare's resignation in 1969, White and Armstrong became Deputy Presidents. The Deputy President's positions continued until 1975 when they were replaced with four vice presidents under President Kenny. In 1987, the vice-presidents' duties were divided into Administration and Finance, Academic, Student and Academic Services, and Research.

The Canadian Political Science Association/Association Canadienne de Science Politique began in 1912. It was incorporated under the Canada Corporation Act in 1971. The association's objectives are to encourage and develop political science and its relationship with other disciplines, hold conferences to discuss political science problems, give grants, scholarships, and publish journals relating to political science.

The Canadian Information Processing Society is a national organization with individual sections in major cities throughout the country. Each team has its executive and elected members. CIPS's mission is to define and foster the IT profession, encourage and support the IT practitioner. It also endeavours to advance IT's theory and practice while safeguarding the public interest. Before 1965, CIPS was known as The Computing and Data Processing Society of Canada. This name was changed to The Computer Society of Canada. By 1968, this name had been officially changed to CIPS. Dr. Jim M. Kennedy was director of the Computing Centre at UBC from 1966 to 1979, was the president of CIPS from 1971 to 1972. The sous-fonds also include the Northwest CIPS 1978 Conference materials, apparently collected by Jack Leigh of the UBC Computing Centre, and the North West '78 Conference proceedings.

The Canadian Medical Expedition to Easter Island (M.E.T.E.I.) under the direction of Stanley C. Skoryna of McGill University was organized to "study the relative role of environment and hereditary factors on an isolated population." The twenty-five person expedition included two U.B.C. participants, Ian Efford (Zoology) and graduate student Jack Mathias. It was sponsored by the World Health Organization, the M.E.T.E.I had three objectives:

1. To conduct multi-disciplinary studies of native populations.
2. Study collection and preservation of biological materials on field conditions.
3. Assist the population with medical problems.
   The expedition operated between October 1964 and February 1965.

The Canadian Mathematical Congress was formed in 1945. The founders of the Mathematical Congress hoped that the organization would be dedicated to developing Maths in Canada. However, it was incorporated as a non-profit charitable organization in 1978, and its name was changed to the Canadian Mathematical Society.

The UBC Department of English was established in 1915 within the Faculty of Arts, one of the University's first academic departments. Over the years, various Department staff members have been prominent within the University community and nationally and internationally, including Earle Birney, Roy Daniells, Jane Rule, Garnett G. Sedgewick, Frederic Wood, and George Woodcock. Researchers can find a history of the Department and prominent staff members during the 20th century on the Department of English website. The UBC English Department is unique in Canada. It offers two tiers of English Literature, English Language, and Linguistics programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Courses include the following focuses: national, transnational, postcolonial, transpacific, Indigenous literature, language, linguistics, rhetoric, critical theory, and media studies in Medieval, Early Modern, Eighteenth Century, Romantic, Victorian, Modernist, Postmodern, and Contemporary contexts. In addition, English department faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students lead in several multidisciplinary research programs, including First Nations and Indigenous Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, Studies in Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice, Law and Society, Media Studies, Canadian Studies, and Medieval Studies.

The Faculty of Arts was one of the three original faculties of the University of British Columbia. Renamed the Faculty of Arts and Science in 1922, it administered all departments and programmes in the natural, physical and social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. By 1962 the Faculty had about half of the University's total enrolment and was responsible for three-quarters of academic instruction. The resulting administrative complexities led to its division in 1963 into the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science. The reduced Faculty of Arts included the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology, Asian Studies, Classics, Economics and Political Science (split in 1964), English, Fine Arts, Geography, German (renamed Germanic Studies in 1976), History, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance Studies, and Slavonic Studies, plus the Schools of Home Economics (renamed Family and Nutritional Sciences in 1984), Librarianship (renamed Library, Archival and Information Studies in 1985), and Social Work.
Since 1963 the Faculty has added the Departments of Religious Studies (1965), Creative Writing (1965), Theatre (1965, renamed Theatre and Film in 1991), and Linguistics (1969). Romance Studies was split into the Departments of French and Hispanic and Italian Studies in 1967. The School of Music was formed in 1987. Since 1990, Slavonic Studies has been disbanded. Family and Nutritional Sciences has been transferred to the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, and departmental mergers (forced in part by financial constraints) have created the Departments of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, and Theatre, Film and Creative Writing. The Faculty of Arts continues to provide instruction and facilitate research in the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts.

The history of summer instruction at the university dates back to 1920 when the institution sponsored Summer School for Teachers. In 1922 the program expanded to become University Summer Session and offered a broad range of courses. The Summer Session Students' Association at UBC was established in 1925 to promote academic and social interaction amongst participants in a summer session. The term "Students'" was dropped from the organization's title in 1953 to broaden its focus. A weekly Bulletin kept members informed of all campus events (most sponsored by SSA) and other helpful information. The Association also provided funding for scholarships and interest-free loans. In 1994, the Summer Session Association was dissolved, and the Alma Mater Society took over its activities.

In 1921, the University of British Columbia created the Department of Forestry within the Faculty of Applied Science. Herbert Read Christie became its first department head. In 1935, the focus of the Department shifted from logging engineering to scientific engineering. Forestry studies at UBC grew significantly post-war, and the Department became a Faculty in 1951. In 1957, the Sopron School of Forestry became a Division of UBC's Faculty of Forestry. It included all of its staff and students who had fled Hungary during the revolt against Russia in 1956. Three departments created within the Faculty in 1983 included Forest Resources Management, Forest Sciences and Harvesting and Wood Science. For the Deans of the Faculty of Forestry, consult the list of Deans.

The University of British Columbia Graduate Historical Society was established by former UBC history students in the April of 1934 to "encourage among graduates in history an interest in the discussion of historical subjects." The Society served as a gathering place for former UBC history graduates. In addition, it recognized the best student in the History graduating class through the endowment of a prize. Helen R. Boutlier (Arts '34) served as the first president of the Society, which existed only until 1944.

Edward Sinclair Pretious was born in Calcutta, India. He obtained his B.A.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of British Columbia (1929) and M.Sc. in Hydraulics from Iowa State University (1939). He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at UBC in 1940, remaining there until his retirement in the early 1970s. Interested in hydraulic engineering and research projects relating to fish conservation in B.C., Pretious headed the Fraser River Model Project (1948-1961) and the Vancouver Harbour and Burrard Inlet Model Project (1953-1956). The Fraser River Model Project was designed to help improve navigation on the Fraser River Estuary. Located on a three-acre site on the western edge of the Point Grey campus, the project was a hydraulic, erodible-bed, tidal river model and one of the largest in the world. The Vancouver Harbour - Burrard Inlet Project had the primary objective of determining the effects on currents, tides, and navigation of proposed dredging in the First Narrows. A pilot model of the First Narrows was built by the National Research Council of Canada, in cooperation with UBC, on the site of the Fraser River Model, near the Arboretum.

The UBC Department of Economics, Sociology and Political Science was established in 1915 within the Faculty of Arts. However, there were no officers and staff in the department at that time. Instead, three courses in economics were offered by Samuel Mack Eastman, assistant professor of the Department of History. Theodore H. Boggs became the first professor of economics in 1917 and head of the department in 1920 when Henry F. Angus joined him. In 1931, Angus succeeded Boggs, and he served as a head until 1956.
Meanwhile, the department name was changed to the Department of Economics, Political Science, Commerce, and Sociology in 1934. Five years later, the Department of Commerce was created. The department was then renamed the Department of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. A program leading to a master's degree in economics was offered in 1926, and a doctoral program was instituted in 1962. The Department of Economics and Political Science was divided into separate units; the Department of Economics and the Department of Political Science in 1964. The Department of Economics belongs to the Faculty of Arts that administers all departments and programmes in the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts. The department is responsible for teaching, research, and service to the university, profession, and community economics. Other heads of the department have been John J. Deutsch (1956-1959), Joseph A. Crumb (1959-1960), John H. Young (1960-1966), Anthony D. Scott (1966-1969), A. Milton Moore (1969-1973), Ronald A. Shearer (1973-1977), John G. Cragg (1977-1986), Samuel P. S. Ho (1986-1990), John F. Helliwell (1990-1993), William C. Riddell (1993-1997), Ashok Kotwal (1997-2002), and Angela Redish (2002- ).

The Bursar's Office was the University of British Columbia's administration unit responsible for financial affairs between 1915 and 1984. The Bursar, who acted as a chief financial officer for the University, implemented the Board of Governors' fiscal policies. In addition, the office encompassed the following areas of responsibility: treasury, internal audit and control, consultative or financial management, and the implementation of technological developments such as data processing and computerization. The position of Bursar dates back to the University's first opening in 1915. However, the position was known as Business Agent for the first two years of operation.
Relatively few individuals have served as Bursar at UBC. Fred Dallas held the position of Bursar for twenty years until his retirement in 1935. His successor, Angus MacLucas, was Bursar until 1948. He was succeeded by R.M. Bagshaw, who held the position for three years. E.D. MacPhee was appointed Honorary Bursar in 1951 and oversaw the operation of the office until 1963. William White became UBC's last Bursar, finishing his term in 1969. After that, the position of the Bursar was discontinued, although the Office of the Bursar continued to control the University's financial matters until 1984, when it was superseded by the Office of the Vice-President Finance (now V.P. Administration and Finance).

Prism International was founded in 1959 by a group of Vancouver writers, teachers and others with literary interests, including several members of the University of British Columbia's Department of English. Then known as Prism, it was the only literary magazine in Canada west of Toronto, becoming a forum for Canadian authors including Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, George Bowering and Jack Hodgins. Between 1959 and 1963, Jan de Bruyn served as its first editor. In 1963, due to financial difficulties, Prism found it necessary to affiliate itself with the Department of Creative Writing at U.B.C. In 1964, Earle Birney became Editor and Chief of the Journal, and the University became its publisher. Known afterwards as Prism International, the Journal began publishing the work of authors worldwide. Jack Zilber, one of the founders, succeeded Birney in 1966 and served for seven years. Zilber reduced the publication of Prism International to three issues annually. Michael Bullock (1973-1977) became the Journal's fourth editor, and then George McWhirter and C.J. Newman assumed joint editorship. In 1978, Prism International became the first student-edited literary Journal in Canada. In 1981, editor John Schoutsen returned Prism International to a quarterly publication. The Journal continues as a student-edited publication changing its editorship annually.

Alfred Rive studied degrees in literature and economics at the University of British Columbia, Cambridge and the University of California. In 1930, he left his position as professor at Yale to work for the Department of External Affairs' Commonwealth and European Division. Within this department, Rive was responsible for communicating with countries regarding prisoners of war. He served with this department for 34 years. He also served as Canada's representative at the League of Nations in Geneva, High Commissioner to New Zealand and Canadian Ambassador to Ireland, 1955-1964.

Leonard M. Staley received a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia in 1951. Upon completing his M.Sc. at the University of California, he taught agricultural engineering at the Ontario Agricultural College. Staley returned to UBC as an assistant professor of Agricultural Mechanics in 1956. In 1981, he became head of both the Department of Bio-Resource Engineering and Agricultural Mechanics.

The 1908 University Act articulates the duties of the Chancellor as a member of the Board of Governors and a member of the Senate. Over the years, the official functions of the Chancellor have also evolved to include the duty of conferring all degrees granted by the University, serving as chair of Convocation, and undertaking the unofficial honour of representing the University on social and ceremonial occasions. The Chancellor is elected by members of the Convocation to hold the office for a three-year term and may be re-elected but may not hold office for more than six consecutive years. In addition, the Chancellor serves as the ceremonial head of the University. Since 1912, the Chancellors of UBC have been Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton (1912-18), Robert E. McKechnie (1918-44), Eric W. Hamber (1944-51), Sherwood Lett (1951-57), Albert E. Grauer (1957-61), Phyllis Ross (1961-66), John M. Buchanan (1966-69), Allan M. McGavin (1969-72), Nathan T. Nemetz (1971-75), Donovan F. Miller (1975-78), John V. Clyne (1978-84), W. Robert Wyman (1984- 87), Leslie R. Peterson (1987-93), Robert H. Lee (1993-96), William Sauder (1996-2002), Allan McEachern (2002-07), Sarah Morgan-Silvester (2008-2014), Lindsay Gordon (2014-2020) and Steven Lewis Point (2020).

The first Department of Creative Writing in Canada was established at the University of British Columbia in 1965. In 1966, Jake Zilber became the first head of the department.

Herbert Read Christie was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College in 1908 and the Faculty of Forestry in 1913. Christie became the first member and director of the UBC Department of Forestry from 1921-1933.

Lloyd Fraser Detwiller was born on August 8, 1917, in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. He obtained a B.A. in Economics and government from the University of B.C. in 1939. In 1940 and an M.A. in Economics and Statistics. He then enlisted in the R.C.A.F., where he served until 1945. After his discharge from the air force, he lectured for a year at U.B.C. in economics, and in 1946 he joined the provincial government as a research statistician. He served the government in various capacities: Secretary of the School Tax Commission; Commissioner of Sales Tax (June 1948-1950); and B.C. Hospital Insurance Service (1950-1955). He left in 1955 to take formal training in hospital administration at the University of Minnesota. Still, he returned to B.C. in 1957 to the post of Assistant Deputy Minister of Hospital Insurance. In 1962, he left government service to become the administrator of the U.B.C. Health Sciences Centre, a position which he held until his retirement in December of 1982.
Detwiller lectured extensively on medical economics in Canada and the United States for various universities and professional institutions. In addition, he was very influential in countries other than Canada's health care economics through his speeches and publications. After Detwiller's retirement in 1982, he continued to serve the U.B.C. Health Sciences Centre Hospital as an unpaid but active consultant. He also served as secretary to the Board of Management of the Imaging Research Centre, which he had helped establish. Detwiller continued to write, lecture and attend conferences until he died in 1987. In commemoration of his two decades of service to the Health Sciences Centre, the hospital's psychiatric unit was named the Lloyd F. Detwiller Pavilion.

The Department of Animal Husbandry was established as part of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1917 and continued until superseded by the Department of Animal Science in the early 1950s. The department's function was "to afford education and training in all matters about livestock to all those living in the province and seeking and applying for such education."