Advocacy Services

Graduate students helping graduate students

GSS Advocates are graduate students who provide confidential assistance to individual fellow graduate students experiencing difficulties, academic or otherwise. We provide you with relevant information on, and facilitate access to, university resources. Our Advocates work with you to ensure that your concerns are addressed fairly and timely.

To contact a GSS Advocate, please email advocacy@gss.ubc.ca.

The GSS Advocacy Services would be happy to assist you in resolving disputes that might fall under these categories:

• Academic Misconduct
• Accessibility Accommodations
• Admissions
• Appeals
• Bursaries
• Emergency Funding
• Graduate Supervision
• Fees and Payments
• Grievances
• Harassment and Discrimination
• Health and Safety
• Housing
• Library
• Parking
• Personal
• Readmissions
• Reappraisal of Grades
• Registration
• Required to Withdraw
• Sexual Assault
• Student Rights
• Teaching Assistantship
• Wellness