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Know Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want […]

The Camosun College women’s basketball team is preparing for its upcoming season, which starts on November 1. Chargers women’s basketball guard Tessa Lannon-Paakspuu, who is a fourth-year Sport and Fitness Leadership student, is in her fifth and final year with the team. She says that she’s really excited about this season. “We have a new […]

Camosun College recently received $32,250 from BCcampus in order to establish the Open Education Demonstration Initiative. The college received the money in the form of an Institutional Sustainability Grant from BCcampus—a publicly funded organization that aims to make post-secondary education accessible to everyone—and will use it to redevelop 10 courses with open textbooks through a […]

Studying is never easy. It could be due to lack of personal discipline, lack of spare time in a busy schedule, or lack of ability to concentrate for more than a minute at a time. Whatever the reason, sitting down to hit the books can be an arduous task—one that most Camosun students would probably […]

Writing, as any writer will tell you, is hard work. Writers work day and night to provide readers with quality material that not only entertains but also tells the truth and accurately represents the writer’s point of view. Camosun English instructor Laurie Elmquist writes children’s books when she’s not teaching, and she follows that formula […]

It can be hard to be a student. The feeling of being stretched too thin is constant for many Camosun students. But when students pay their fees at the college, that includes counselling and student support services. Camosun has two student support managers (one for each campus) in the Office of Student Support: Jenny Holder […]