Richard Spencer

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.