The UBC senate recently approved a motion to change the mandate and structure of the College for Interdisciplinary Studies (CFIS). As of April 1^st 2012, several research units including the IES will move to the Faculty of Arts.  The Institute for European Studies now resides within the Department of Political Science.  

For more information visit the CFIS website at www.cfis.ubc.ca/about/cfis-transitions.