News Briefs: March 30, 2016 issue

CCSS teams up with UFV and BCIT The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is teaming up with the Student Union Society of the University of the Fraser Valley and the British Columbia Institute of Technology Student Association to lobby the BC government for completion grant expansions, commitments to capital funding, and fairness in student loans. […]

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News Briefs: March 16, 2016 issue (with web-exclusive content)

Jill Britton 1944-2016 On February 29, 2016, former Camosun College math instructor Jill Britton, who retired last year, passed away. Britton taught math for over 50 years. She has an education fund—the Jill Britton Elementary Education Mathematics Award—at the college; donations can be given via the Camosun Foundation. Camosun students kick butt, take names A […]

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Lack of healthy options in Camosun vending machines questioned

Scanning the vending machines at Camosun College, one is face to face with a lot of junk food and not a lot of healthy options. Potato chips and chocolate bars are there, but there’s not much in the way of more nutritious food. This is what has Camosun first-year Early Learning and Care student Charly-Ann […]

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Camosun’s Centre for Trades Education and Innovation officially opens

Camosun College had an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, February 25 for the new Centre for Trades Education and Innovation building, located at the Interurban campus. The building’s construction was funded largely in part by the Ministry of Education, which contributed $29.2 million of the $30 million that has been invested in Camosun trades building […]

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Student group says new BC budget misses postsecondary mark

The new provincial budget, which was announced on February 16, is said by the government to have been constructed with British Columbia’s families, jobs, and communities in mind. However, critics say that it fails to provide support to postsecondary institutions and students, and that it ignores increasing fees and debt that students face. Proposals to […]

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News Briefs: March 2, 2016 issue

Camosun Chargers check-in The Camosun Chargers men’s and women’s volleyball teams wrapped up the season with an exciting pair of back-to-back match-ups against the Vancouver Island University (VIU) Mariners. The island rivalry series began in Nanaimo on Friday, February 19; both men’s and women’s volleyball teams lost. The final match between the opposing teams was […]

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Camosun College Student Society concerned over minister of advanced education’s comments

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) claims that minister of advanced education Andrew Wilkinson made statements regarding BC student debt in a February 3 Times Colonist article that were misleading or unrealistic. Specifically, the CCSS is concerned about Wilkinson’s claim that 61,000 students receive financial assistance. The CCSS says that this is representative of less […]

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News Briefs: February 17, 2016 issue

Minister comments irk student society The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) is concerned after comments made by BC minister of advanced education Andrew Wilkinson in a Times Colonist story. In the piece, Wilkinson made several statements about student debt in BC which the CCSS says were misleading. In the article, Wilkinson stated that 61,000 students […]

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Camosun student starts petition protesting potential tuition raise

The tuition for Camosun’s Civil Engineering Technology program will increase above the two percent allowed for an existing program if the Ministry of Advanced Education deems it as being “new,” and one Camosun student has started a petition in protest of this potential increase. The Ministry of Advanced Education has a two-percent tuition increase cap […]

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News Briefs: February 3, 2016

Camosun to host championships Camosun College will be hosting the 2017 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Women’s Volleyball National Championship. The championships will take place at the Camosun Chargers’ home base, the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence at the Interurban campus, from March 8 to 11, 2017. Visit camosun.ca/sports/chargers for more information on the Camosun […]

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