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Yates says that these students\u2019 fees are reimbursed to the college through the ministry, and that this program does not increase fees for other students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re actually reimbursed the actual cost of those students attending,\u201d says Yates, \u201cand so the process is managed in part through our financial aid department in terms of the grants that are available to those students, but it doesn\u2019t come out of the college\u2019s budget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Yates, there are 76 students currently enrolled at the college through this program; Vancouver Island University has the most, at 83. Yates says there is no cap as to how many students the college will take, although the college is happy with the current number. She says that these students must meet the admissions guidelines set out by the college. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf students need some support to get into programs\u2014any student, not just these students, we\u2019ve got them,\u201d says Yates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yates says that VIU has been participating in the program for several years longer than Camosun, who began a few years ago through private fundraising to support some students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat was reasonably successful but not sustainable,\u201d says Yates, \u201cand with the current government\u2019s shift to supporting youth and former youth in care, we\u2019ve been at it, this is year two, I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Yates doesn\u2019t specifically know what makes Camosun so successful with this program, she admits to having some theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe big one for Camosun is that we have incredibly flexible programing,\u201d she says. \u201cSo, if a student, for example, wants to get into a program but may be a little short on math, or English, or whatever, we have the capacity through Access programing to get students into the college.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yates says that another reason these students are coming to Camosun could be because the college offers a broad range of programming for southern Vancouver Island, or because of Camosun\u2019s average class size of 35 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAgain, it gives students enormous flexibility in terms of their choices,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I think also we have a strong reputation in post-secondary for good wrap-arounds, good supports. So with small class sizes, for example, it means that those students can actually get to know instructors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yates says the college has also had very good relations with the local K-12 school system, where some of these students are able to start their education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo, there\u2019s support that\u2019s coming from the school system saying, \u2018Given your circumstances, Camosun might be a little bit of a better spot for you right now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since 2017, the provincial government has been giving former foster children free post-secondary education, and Camosun College has the second-highest enrollment rates of these students of any BC post-secondary institution. Camosun vice president of student experience Joan Yates couldn\u2019t be prouder. \u201cThe principles and values we have as a college about being life-changing and transformational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-january-7-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16915,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16913\/revisions\/16915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}