Congratulations to Debbie Lin + the Student Communications Services team for receiving the Leadership Award from the BCCAT (BC Council on Admissions and Transfer Credit) for their work on the
UBC Transfer Credit Search Tool.

The Leadership Award from BCCAT recognizes an individual or group for demonstrating exemplary leadership that has had a significant and positive impact on advancing the theory and practice of transfer and articulation within the BC Transfer System.

The project team consisted of:

Debbie Lin, Manager, Transfer Credit
Patricia (Pat) Siggers, Project Lead
Jonathan (Jon) Tsang, Project Lead
Andy Chipperfield, User Experience Designer
Defne Corbacioglu, Communications Designer
Ariel Lee, User Experience Coordinator
Anna Wang, Web Developer
Connie Yeh, Web Developer

On Debbie’s leadership

When Debbie assumed the role of Manager, Transfer Credit in early 2018, she made this (the development of the Transfer Credit Search Tool) her priority. She was a tireless champion of the project. The final online search tool is the result of and exemplifies true collaboration between Debbie, UBC Student Communications Services, BCCAT, and numerous stakeholders across both UBC campuses.

 – Sam Saini, Associate Registrar & Director, Student Recruitment & Admissions, UBC Enrolment Services

Key approaches to the project: Users first and a collaborative effort

“UBC’s Student Communications Services Team exemplifies collaboration and excellence at the highest level. In their design of the UBC Transfer Credit Search Tool, they consulted with multiple stakeholders including user-experience sessions with transfer students and student advisors. They very quickly learned the details of transfer articulations and the needs of transfer students in order to design a tool that would maximize student user experience.” 

– Paola Baca, Associate Director Undergraduate Admissions, UBC Enrolment Services

About the transfer credit tool

We launched the UBC Transfer Credit Search Tool in May 2019. The tool allows users to search for transfer credits at UBC from courses completed within BC, across the rest of Canada. The first of its kind in BC, this online transfer credit search tool makes more than 50,000 equivalencies from over 600 institutions publicly available on UBC’s websites. It has been well-received by UBC students, staff, and faculty, as well as colleagues in the BC transfer system who wish to engage with BCCAT to launch similar collaborative technology projects.