Summer Melt
The term “summer melt” denotes a phenomenon when post-secondary students who received an offer of admission and may have paid a deposit when accepting the offer, “fail to enroll at […]
Direct Admissions: Increasing Access to Post-Secondary Education through Proactive Admissions
Direct Admissions is a system developed and piloted recently in the US that defaults graduating high school students into post-secondary admittance by data-matching their profiles (transcripts, standardized test scores, and […]
Professional Regulation and Transfer: Exploring the Impact of Professional Regulation on Transfer Activity in the BC Transfer System
This report examines the types of professional regulation in BC that interact with institutions and programs in the BC Transfer System, and assesses the extent to which professional regulation affects […]
Course Outlines in the BC Transfer System: Designing Content and Format to Facilitate Course Transferability
The purpose of this report is to examine and compare course outlines at BC Transfer System member institutions, and to provide recommendations for course outline content and format to facilitate […]
Accessible Admissions: Fostering Equitable, Accessible, and Inclusive Admissions through Disability Justice
This report summarizes a comprehensive environmental scan of thirty-eight BC Transfer System post-secondary institutions’ admissions processes and presents both current best practices in the system and opportunities to advance equity, […]
Online Delivery Trends: Online, Hybrid, and Multi-Access Learning and Teaching in British Columbia: Post-Pandemic Trends and Intentions
This project undertook an analysis of the evolving nature of online, hybrid, and multi-access learning within the British Columbia (BC) post-secondary education system. The project objectives included assessing potential changes […]
Impact of COVID-19 and Online Learning on Students in BC’S Rural and Remote Communities
This project aimed at analyzing how the shift to online learning during 2020-2021 period of remote delivery may have impacted rural/remote post-secondary students in the province. The literature review discusses […]
Survey of Mobile Students
In 2019, BCCAT collaborated with BC Stats to conduct the Survey of Mobile Students: this project examined transfer students (“movers”) and their decisions, motivations, and experiences within the BC transfer environment.
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Functions and Services of Registrars’ Offices in BC Post-Secondary Institutions
Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and elsewhere were forced to react quickly and boldly when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in early 2020. The pandemic had unforeseen consequences, but it also […]
Exploring Stranded Credit in the BC Transfer System
Stranded credit is credit that students have earned at a post-secondary institution, but cannot use or transfer because they have unpaid debts at the institution. Institutions will usually not issue […]