coupland received an honorary degree from the university of british columbia on may 27, 2010. with the university of british columbia having announced that it has acquired coupland's personal archives on may 20, the culmination of a project that began in 2002. the archives, which coupland plans to continue to add to in the future, currently consist of 122 boxes and features about 30 metres of textual materials, including manuscripts, photos, visual art, fan mail, correspondence, press clippings, audio/visual material and more. one of the most notable inclusions in the collection includes the first hand-written manuscript of ‘generation x,' scrawled on loose-leaf notebook paper and strewn with margin notes. in a statement issued on the ubc website coupland said, "i am honoured that ubc has accepted my papers. i hope that within them, people in the future will find patterns and constellations that can’t be apparent to me or to anyone simply because they are there, and we are here...the donation process makes me feel old and yet young at the same time. i’m deeply grateful for ubc’s support and enthusiasm." a new consignment of materials including "[...] everything from doodles and fan mail to a bejeweled hornet’s nest to a styrofoam le for the archive arrived in july 2012[...]" arrived for sorting in july 2012. the sorting and categorisation of the new material was documented through the ubc school of archival and information studies blog.