The Gateway Building
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Our Giving Page celebrates the generosity of generations of alumni, faculty, emeriti, and other friends of the school. A selection of our popular funds is searchable below. Click the link above to read about awards currently presented to nursing students. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us.
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Building Nursing: 100 Years and Counting
When the School of Nursing opened in 1919, students at the fledgling University of British Columbia crowded into temporary wooden buildings nicknamed “The Fairview Shacks” (now the site of Vancouver General Hospital). On completion of the Science Building on the Point Grey campus in 1925, nursing students moved in with other science students. By 1946, post-war enrolment had increased and overcrowding forced the nursing students into “The Huts”–the recently abandoned campus army barracks. These remained in use as classrooms and then as administration buildings throughout the fifties and sixties. In later years, faculty shuttled between these and classroom space in the Wesbrook Building. Finally, the School of Nursing gathered itself back together and took up residence in the (then) state-of-the-art Koerner Pavilion Acute Care Unit, where it has remained “temporarily” since 1981.
It is fitting that 2019—the centenary of the School of Nursing—is the year UBC took a critical step toward the realization of our new building, an innovative space designed specifically for nursing research and education. Having received Board of Governors Approval, we now enter the next phase of our history. Our proposed new home, in partnership with the School of Kinesiology, UBC Health, and Integrated Student Health, will be located at the NW corner of University Boulevard and Wesbrook Mall, on the prominent Gateway site.
How to Donate
All gifts to the School of Nursing are received through giveUBC. When you click the donate button you will no longer be on the Nursing site, but on the main UBC giving site. Instructions are below. If you need assistance in making your donation, please contact the School.
Once you have found the fund you wish to donate to, write down the name, or simply click the icon next to the title of the fund to copy the name to your clipboard.
- Click the DONATE button to open the giveUBC page. (You will leave the School of Nursing site, but the fund name is still in your clipboard.)
- Find where it says CHOOSE CAUSE* and click the little arrow to open the dropdown menu.
- Choose OTHER from the dropdown menu.
- A new line that appears in the form. Place your cursor here and paste the title of the fund from your clipboard (CTRL-V or ⌘-V). Or manually type the name of the fund you have written down.
- Now you are set to fill out the rest of the form: donation type, amount, NEXT.
- In the next two windows, you will provide your details and payment information, and confirm your donation.
Similar instructions will appear again when you are ready to donate.
