{"id":19697,"date":"2020-06-30T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19697"},"modified":"2020-06-30T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T22:12:46","slug":"camosun-to-close-continuing-education-department-announce-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/06\/30\/camosun-to-close-continuing-education-department-announce-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun to close Continuing Education department, announce layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19672\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200629_085556-e1593466858713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200629_085556-e1593466858713-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200629_085556-e1593466858713-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200629_085556-e1593466858713.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign on Camosun College&#8217;s Lansdowne campus in late June 2020 (photo by Greg Pratt\/<em>Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The college said in the email that &#8220;Continuing Education programming will be revisited in the future once the college has financially recovered from the current crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The college also announced today in a separate email the layoffs and\/or reduction in positions in other areas of the college &#8220;where there is little or no work.&#8221; The college said in that email that there will be &#8220;less than 50 positions&#8221; impacted by the layoffs and reduction in positions. It cited the current financial situation of the college and the interruption of services due to the COVID-19 crisis as reasons for the &#8220;labour adjustment strategies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The college didn&#8217;t give details on departments or specific positions &#8220;due to confidentiality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Look for our full story on the Continuing Education closure, as well as our ongoing college COVID-19 coverage, on our site soon.<\/p>\n<p>Camosun College stopped in-person instruction on March 14; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/2020\/06\/30\/what-happened-behind-the-scenes-on-march-14-looking-back-on-the-day-camosun-flipped-the-switch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read our feature story about the behind-the-scenes work that went into that decision here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Continuing Education programming will be revisited in the future once the college has financially recovered from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19672,"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":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697","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=19697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19698,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions\/19698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}