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Camosun College has announced its next president. Lane Trotter will be president of Camosun starting in January 2022. Trotter is currently the president of Vancouver’s Langara College and has 28 years of experience at a senior level in post-secondary. Trotter will replace Sherri Bell, who has been the Camosun president for over six years. Trotter’s […]

On Monday, July 5, the provincial government released final guidelines for a full return to campus in the fall. The provincial COVID-19 Return-to-Campus Guidelines say that on September 7 at the earliest, masks will be a personal choice on campuses, there will be normal social contact, and there will be no occupancy limits for workspaces. […]

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) and Camosun College are holding a contest for vaccinated students, and the grand-prize winner is going to walk away with a semester’s worth of free tuition. The #CamVax: Vaccination for Education contest is open to all students who receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by September 7 […]

For Camosun School of Access dean Ian Humphries, the private smudging ceremony and launch of Camosun’s new Indigenous canoe into the Gorge waterway on Monday, July 21—National Indigenous Peoples Day—was a special experience. Considering the many hundreds of bodies of Indigenous children that have been discovered across Canada recently, Humphries knows work in reconciliation will […]

Camosun College will begin reopening its Continuing Education (CE) programming in September. CE at Camosun was put on hold in June of last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Camosun vice president of partnerships Geoff Wilmshurst says that the college has to make sure there are strong enrolment numbers for the programming because […]

Camosun to hold spring convocation online Camosun College recently announced it will again hold its convocation ceremonies online due to COVID-19 restrictions. The ceremonies will be held on June 28 and 29; over 3,000 students will be graduating this year. See camosun.ca/grad for more info. College Fine Furniture and Joinery students display projects Camosun College’s […]

Osteology is the study of bones, and few applications of this study are more prominent to the general public than the life-sized display of animal skeletons. If we’re lucky, we might visit a museum display to see a real-life dinosaur skeleton, or that of some other awe-inspiring creature. And, while paleoanthropology is a fascinating look […]

New memorial award for trades students The Camosun College Foundation recently announced a new memorial award to assist carpentry, plumbing, and electrical students. The John Scheeren Building Excellence Memorial Award honours local builder John Scheeren and his 30 years of contributions to the local construction industry. Scheeren was a certified carpenter through Camosun who died […]

Camosun College is receiving a $444,000 donation from the Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation in partnership with Seaspan Shipyards. Each year for the next three years, $100,000 of the donation will go toward new and already established scholarships and bursaries for women and Indigenous trades students at Camosun. The remaining $144,000 will go toward marine […]

Trudeau cleared in WE Charity scandal Ethics commissioner Mario Dion recently cleared prime minister Justin Trudeau in the WE Charity scandal, saying that Trudeau didn’t break federal ethics rules, but former finance minister Bill Morneau did. While Trudeau has family members who have financial ties to WE Charity, Dion says that Trudeau and his family […]