Camosun English instructor Laurie Elmquist releases new children’s bookWriting, 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 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Office of Student Support aims to help struggling studentsIt 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 […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Robin Fast on talking to instructors and learning how to learnKnow 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 who you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want […] Continue Reading |
Camosun instructor strives to understand human motives with art“The immediacy of a moment in time that you can’t rehearse. An unscripted, honest event. It’s not fiction. Once it’s been done before it becomes fictive. Not an honest moment in time.” This is one of Camosun Visual Arts instructor John Boehme’s MOs in regard to his performance art. Whether he is performing in Minsk, […] Continue Reading |
Camosun instructor sheds anthropological light on food with new bookWhen we are sitting down to a wholesome supper, do we ever wonder where it comes from? Do we ask ourselves what methods are used to provide our plate of spaghetti, and what each ingredient might go through, or where it might come from? When we think, “I feel like Italian tonight,” do we wonder […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun instructor Jody Watson on being humbled by technologyKnow 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 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Business student pursues boxing dream outside of classroomMost of us haven’t figured ourselves out yet. Most of us have an idea in mind about some dream or another that we would like to fulfill, and most of us kind of wing it every day in hopes that someday we might get a chance to do chase the dream. Bryan Colwell has taken […] Continue Reading |
Camosun’s new VP of student experience says campus life is all connectedMental health, supporting victims of sexual violence, and post-secondary affordability aren’t just issues on Camosun students’ minds—they’re all areas that new Camosun vice president of student experience Heather Cummings plans on focusing on in her job. “Those are three hot buttons that I can’t imagine not being responsive to,” she says. “It breaks my heart […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student takes on deer conservation issues in VictoriaA Camosun student and current Camosun instructors have gotten involved in a collaborative urban deer management project through the Urban Wildlife Stewardship Society (UWSS). Camosun Environmental Technology co-op student Chelsey Mercer says that she’s gotten to know the deer and their habits through the camerawork she’s done for the project. Some of it has been […] Continue Reading |
New Chargers coach, on heels of overseas success, says it’s all about relationshipsFor new Camosun Chargers women’s basketball coach Justin Thiessen—who started a basketball academy in China before settling in Victoria this summer—sport is not the only focus of being a coach. A teacher by trade, Thiessen says basketball and education go hand in hand. “If it wasn’t for basketball I wouldn’t have a lot of the […] Continue Reading |
