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On March 16, Camosun is set to replace Camlink with a new online registration platform called myCamosun. Created by software company Ellucian, whose website states it is “the market leader in higher education technology,” myCamosun is a long-overdue change, says Camosun registrar Scott Harris. “Camlink was certainly dated technology,” he says, “and in my opinion, […]

Camosun College recently announced its new Clean Energy and Efficient Buildings micro-credentials. The micro-credentials give people working in the field a chance to advance their career; the classes will be held mainly by distance on weekday evenings, and the college is aiming to have students enrolled in the first cohort next month. “We started to […]

Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been released from Saudi jail after pressure was applied to the government to release her. Al-Hathloul—the UBC alumnus at the centre of the #StudentsForLoujain campaign—spent 1,001 days in jail. Saudi public prosecution said in a statement that al-Hathloul and others were arrested for being involved in “coordinated and […]

In 2015, Camosun president Sherri Bell was sitting in her office with with Camosun vice president of education John Boraas and vice president of communications, advancement, and planning Joan Yates and a large stack of poster paper. The three were thinking about what they wanted portfolios for different positions to look like in coming years. […]

Camosun College president Sherri Bell announced today in an email that she will be retiring at the end of 2021. Bell says that she has no immediate plans for post-retirement and says that her time as Camosun president has been the highlight of her career. Bell became president in 2015. Look for our full story […]

Camosun College is receiving space for 20 additional full-time students in its Mental Health and Addictions (MHA) program. The money for the spaces comes from the provincial government after it cited a need for mental-health support during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government is spending $800,000 between four public post-secondary institutions on the spaces as part […]

From February 8 to 12, the British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) participated in The Week of Action, a week-long effort that was part of the two-year Knock Out Interest campaign. Through the campaign, the BCFS—along with 40 student unions across Canada, including the Camosun College Student Society—is calling on the federal government to eliminate […]

Kit Caudron-Robinson was working on the oil rigs in Alberta, but it wasn’t what he wanted to be doing. After listening to one of his three older sisters, a practicing lawyer, talk about how going back to school would be the best possible thing he could do, he enrolled at Camosun with the long-term goal […]

Camosun College is holding their annual Sexualized Violence Awareness Week from February 8 to 12. The week, which is organized by the college’s Office of Student Support and the Camosun College Student Society, is a little different this year due to it being all online; there’s no getting around that, says Camosun student support manager […]

Victoria NDP MP Laurel Collins has sponsored a parliamentary e-petition that calls on the Canadian government to increase supports for students in light of COVID-19. The petition, signed by 9,580 people, asks that the government uses the remaining funds from the $9 billion in aid allocated for the Canada Student Services Grant that was originally […]