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Shortly after an announcement that the federal government had launched the $912-million Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG) program, which provides grants to post-secondary students who volunteer, the contract with the organization that was to be distributing the money has been cancelled. The Liberals had faced much criticism after they announced WE Charity would be distributing […]

In an email sent out just before 3 pm on Tuesday, June 30, Camosun College announced that it will be closing its Continuing Education department as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The college said in the email that “Continuing Education programming will be revisited in the future once the college has financially recovered from […]

Camosun BOG gets new chair Beginning on August 1, Camosun College board of governors member Monty Bryant will assume the role of board chair, taking over from Laylee Rohani. Bryant has been on the board since January 2019, and holds member positions on several other boards and committees with Camosun and in the community. He […]

Camosun Indigenous Studies 2020 grad Shane Baker was recently awarded the BC Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Inclusion, Democracy and Reconciliation. It hasn’t been an easy journey to get there, though: in 2003, Baker was deeply entrenched in alcoholism, and living a life that was lacking his First Nations culture. But after an accident that resulted […]

Camosun College has postponed its 2020 graduation ceremony due to COVID-19 but has taken the celebration online. Camosun president Sherri Bell says the decision to cancel in-person ceremonies was made at the last possible moment, in hopes of not having to do it, and says it was heartbreaking; 3,000 students would have walked across the […]

Camosun vice president of partnerships Geoff Wilmshurst has worked hard over his career to cultivate international education in Canada. On June 1, Wilmshurst—who started at Camosun in 2011—was recognized by the British Columbia Council for International Education for his work in international education at the college, and in Victoria on the whole, including growing annual […]

CCSS offers three-month bus pass As of Monday, June 1, BC Transit has resumed collection of fares on city buses. The Camosun College Student Society is offering students who are either currently registered or were registered last semester a bus pass valid from June 1 to August 31 for $70. The pass is available for […]

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) board members who were elected in to their positions in April are settling in and looking forward to the fall semester, attempting to determine the best plan of action in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. CCSS external executive Quinn Cunningham says that even with classes being moved online […]

Camosun College is seeking student input on its Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy. As part of the provincial Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy Act, the college is required to review the policy every three years; Camosun vice president of student experience Heather Cummings says that when the policy was reviewed recently, they had aspects pointed […]

On Thursday, May 14, Camosun College announced that it would be delivering a mix of online and in-person classes in the fall, noting that in-person classes are only possible if rates of COVID-19 transmission in BC remain low or in decline. Camosun vice president of education John Boraas says that there’s a lot the college […]