Teaching Awards

UBC Okanagan recognizes teaching excellence and innovation through a number of prestigious awards. Recipients are exemplary role models who have a significant impact on the culture of teaching and learning at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Awards are also available for undergraduate and graduate student teaching assistants and tutors in recognition of their exceptional contributions to academic life.

• Teaching Excellence and Innovation Award
• Killam Teaching Prize 
• Excellence for Teaching Assistants and Tutors
• 3M National Teaching Fellowship

“In my view, teaching is not just a profession. It should be a passion. It should be a calling. “

-Santa Ono, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia