News Briefs: June 12, 2019 issueAgreement calls for more student support at college Camosun College and BCGEU Local 701 recently ratified an agreement that includes a fund to support the development of online, blended, and distributed courses, along with student and instructor support initiatives that aim to improve learning outcomes. BCGEU Local 701 represents 164 vocational faculty members at Camosun. […] Continue Reading |
Kayfabulous: June 12, 2019 issue |
Open Space: BC government finally cracking down on post-secondary money launderingThe BC government has identified post-secondary as a vulnerable sector for money laundering and are asking institutions such as Camosun College to put measures in place to prevent money laundering. It’s about time. Around $7.4 billion in cash was laundered in British Columbia in 2018, according to a report by a panel of experts led […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College involved in microhousing projectCamosun College—through its Camosun Innovates department—is teaming up with Clemson University in South Carolina and Anomura Housing Society in Victoria on a design for tiny homes that can be assembled with just a rubber mallet, a screwdriver, and steel twist ties. The design, called sim[PLY], was developed at Clemson University in the interest of synthesizing […] Continue Reading |
Penguin & Peacock: June 12, 2019 |
Through the looking glass: The impact of cell-phone use on Camosun College studentsCell phones. Who uses cell phones these days? Pretty much everyone, obviously. Except me. I gave up my cell phone in the fall of 2014; I was leaving BC to go travelling for several months in Europe. I really needed a change, and it was the perfect opportunity to make a complete break from the […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Carl Everitt on the importance of giving backKnow 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 […] Continue Reading |
Communication Error: Spilling voicesJogging at a standstill, layering yourself into position, and dripping into place—not unlike a gelatin mould of yourself. Voices are running wild, and they are running nowhere. Where exactly are you going, voices, and are you not already somewhere you wish to be? Spending time devising ways to spend time isn’t exactly useful right now, […] Continue Reading |
Langham Court to close out season with a heap of British humourLocal community theatre company Langham Court Theatre is preparing the final show of their 90th season, Noises Off. For director Don Keith, the shenanigans of the 1982 British comedy about a theatre troupe on the final night of rehearsals before the big opening of their show hit close to home. “Noises Off, I laugh […] Continue Reading |
Open Space: The reality of rentals in VictoriaFinding affordable rental prices in Victoria is like sticking your hand into a beehive hoping to get honey without getting stung. Unfortunately, you are going to get stung. Most people are still picking high-rental-price stingers out of their fingers while continuing their search for affordability. All you have to do is sneak between the stingers […] Continue Reading |
