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While Camosun College’s campuses remain quiet, students and staff are gearing up for a semester that is, in every way, new. The college is offering most of its student services remotely for the fall semester, and so is the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS). An exception to that is part of the UPass validation process, […]

Camosun launches nursing bursary Camosun college students studying emergency nursing may be eligible for a new bursary, which commemorates long-time emergency room nurse Irene McKinlay, who recently passed away. McKinlay’s family and colleagues donated over $24,000 to the Camosun College Foundation toward the new Irene McKinlay Memorial Nursing Bursary. The first annual $1,000 bursary will […]

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s an increased need for respiratory masks and a decrease in resources available, particularly in more isolated areas. In response to this problem, researchers at Camosun Innovates (CI) have developed a small, portable ultraviolet-C (UV-C) sterilization device that will allow disposable N95 face masks to be reused. The […]

On Wednesday, July 15, minister of advanced education, skills and training Melanie Mark announced new supports for post-secondary students studying in BC at a press conference held from Camosun College’s Interurban campus. Mark announced an investment of $1.5 million to 20 public post-secondary institutions in BC for supports for students with disabilities; this amounts to […]

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 […]