{"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":"

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

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A sign on Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus in late June 2020 (photo by Greg Pratt\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The college said in the email that “Continuing Education programming will be revisited in the future once the college has financially recovered from the current crisis.”<\/p>\n

The college also announced today in a separate email the layoffs and\/or reduction in positions in other areas of the college “where there is little or no work.” The college said in that email that there will be “less than 50 positions” 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 “labour adjustment strategies.”<\/p>\n

The college didn’t give details on departments or specific positions “due to confidentiality.”<\/p>\n

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

Camosun College stopped in-person instruction on March 14; read our feature story about the behind-the-scenes work that went into that decision here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t