Former Camosun student support manager Lori Horne has been fired, and she says she’ll never know why. Horne was hired into the then-new position in May 2017 to provide students with support, specifically around non-academic misconduct violations. Horne was fired without cause, meaning she didn’t do anything illegal that led to her firing.
Horne declined an interview but gave Nexus a brief statement via email.
“I cannot comment other than the reason I’m no longer at Camosun is that I was fired without cause,” she said in her statement. “I too would like to know why but I never will. I can only trust Joan [Yates, Camosun vice president of student experience] will respond with integrity and truth but that is out of my control. All I can say is I have a clear consciousness [sic] and know in my heart I did a good job serving the college community.”
Yates says she can’t comment on why Horne was fired.
“I’m not going to discuss a personnel issue,” says Yates. “I simply can’t. It’s not fair to her, and so I won’t. What I can say is that the position is really new for the college, and it’s new in the BC college system. There are not a lot of these types of positions.”
The college’s new student support manager is Jenny Holder, who started on the week of January 22.