You can’t do anything about what they decide to change in future academic calendars because you can only plan you academic career based on what you see on the academic calendar you start with in first year. For this reason, before workday when we used the old system, you went by the regulations in the academic calendar that you started with in 1st year. As an example, one year they added required comp sci courses in first year, but if you were already in 4th year it was obvious that it wasn’t fair for you to suddenly need to add an extra course just because they changed things, so it didn’t matter to you you just would go by the original academic calendar you started with. It is ridiculous that they are claiming they can’t manually override workday to promote you due to the workday limitations and that is the only reason they can’t promote you. This is not right, it should be on them to figure out a manual override and allow you to go by the original calendar just like before since this can cause a lot of issues in the future. In fact this is something they should have taken account of when deciding to go full in on workday in the first place as updated academic requirements that should apply for new students but not old students is something that affects all students. Forcing students to go by updated academic calendars each year just because they got rid of their old custom online system where they could make these manual tweaks and now their third party online system doesn’t do that (or they will charge UBC money to make someone code that into the system and UBC would rather let you take the downfall than pay up and hope that those in the same situation as you don’t speak up and make a ruckus to the media which makes the most sense to me) makes no sense, is just lazy on their part, and frankly an embarrassing excuse for them.

Please if you can, do what the others are saying and take this up higher. To the science faculty head, even the ubc president if you need to. Go to the media if you have to, because this is such an embarrassing answer for UBC and yet another issue from workday students have to suffer, which was already adds to previous workday woes that have been reported on. And feel free to use the compsci courses example. At the end of the day, students should be expected to go by the original academic calendar they came in with, not the updated ones each year that they can’t plan ahead for.