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The Camosun Innovates (CI) team at Camosun College is helping in the fight against COVID-19 by creating acrylic 20-row trays to carry vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. CI applied research technologist Matt Zeleny says each vial carries between five and six doses of the vaccine. The vaccine has to be kept at -70 C […]

Camosun students take home awards Two Camosun College students recently won both college categories at the Association for Co-Operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning BC/Yukon (ACE-WIL) 2020 ACE-WIL Student of the Year Awards. Sport and Fitness Leadership student Tanya Fogarty won in the Work-Integrated Learning category, and Business Administration student Dylan Kaplan won the Co-op category. […]

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is having its spring 2021 student elections from April 12 to 14. The nomination period is from March 12 to March 25, and the campaign period is from March 28 to April 9. CCSS external executive Quinn Cunningham says that while the past couple elections were a bit different […]

Yesterday, minister of advanced education and skills training Anne Kang issued a public statement saying that provincial health officer Bonnie Henry has contacted the presidents of all public colleges and universities in British Columbia to tell them to prepare for a full return to on-campus education in September. Today, Camosun College president Sherri Bell confirmed […]

As economic issues exacerbated by the pandemic continue, many students are struggling to buy basic necessities. In the first week of March, the Camosun Cares hamper program began its second round of delivering supplies to students. Weekly deliveries will be made for nine weeks; the hampers will include fresh local produce, food prepared by Camosun’s […]

On Tuesday, February 23, the Victoria Regional Transit Commission (VRTC) voted 5-3 against giving students a voting seat on the commission. The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) currently shares a non-voting seat on the VRTC with the University of Victoria Students’ Society. CCSS external executive Quinn Cunningham calls the decision disappointing and says it’s really […]

The provincial government has approved Camosun College and other public post-secondary institutions in BC to run at a deficit for two fiscal years due to a decrease in revenue resulting from the COVID-19 crisis. Camosun is approved, along with 19 other institutions, to run a deficit up to $178.9 million for fiscal year 2020-21; it’s […]

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 […]