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Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer
Executive Director - Information Technology
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
CANADA

Richard Spencer

Biography

Richard Spencer is Executive Director - IT at the University of BC. He is currently working on a project to develop a next generation, community source, student services system. Richard has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and came to the UBC as a faculty member in 1968. He became Registrar in 1988 and Registrar and Director, Student Services in 1993, and brought a strong focus on excellent service to students, supported by leading edge Web enabled systems, to these areas. As Registrar, Richard led the project that developed UBC's Student Self Evaluation and Self Admission system, which won the Educause Award for Administrative Information Systems in 2003. Richard joined UBC's IT department in 2000.

Publications

Publications
Next Generation Administrative Systems: Philosophy, Principles, ...
ECAR
September 2007

Presentations

Recent Presentations
EventSessionDate
Enterprise Technology Conference 2008Kuali Student: A Next-Generation Administrative System05/29/2008
Enterprise Technology Conference 2008Community Source Software: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? - Sponsored by PGP Corporation05/29/2008
EDUCAUSE 2006Community Source Development of a Next-Generation Student System10/12/2006
EDUCAUSE 2005Seminar 03P - EnableIT: Landing a Successful ERP Solution at the University of British Columbia<br><b>PLEASE NOTE: Separate registration and fee is required to attend this seminar.</b>10/21/2005
EDUCAUSE 2004A Web Services Solution for Student Payments to Multiple Accounts10/22/2004
EDUCAUSE 2003Student Self-Admission to the University of British Columbia11/07/2003
EDUCAUSE 2003Web Services11/07/2003

Membership Information

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