{"id":19725,"date":"2020-07-08T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=19725"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:29:04","slug":"student-editors-letter-loss-of-continuing-education-major-hit-to-camosun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/07\/08\/student-editors-letter-loss-of-continuing-education-major-hit-to-camosun\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor\u2019s Letter: Loss of Continuing Education major hit to Camosun"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a fine sunny summer morning in Victoria. There isn\u2019t a sound save for the fan stirring warm air about in the corner, but I have to practice some deep breathing. I even put some Zen music on YouTube. It\u2019s exactly what it sounds like\u2014something that\u2019s meant to help guests relax and get in touch with their chi.<\/p>\n

The reason for this much-needed Zen time is simple: everywhere I turn, it seems, the state of the economy comes up. At this point, it\u2019s fair to say it\u2019s as much of a crisis as the COVID-19 virus is.<\/p>\n

I was up island this past weekend. Shops were boarded up or closed during peak shopping hours. Cooks actually came out of the kitchen in a restaurant I ordered from to thank me for my business\u2026 and for giving them something to do. Like it or not, these are precarious times for all of us and for every business and organization, including Camosun College, out there.<\/p>\n

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

On Tuesday, June 30, the college announced that it would be closing its Continuing Education program. I\u2019m left with a sinking kind of feeling that\u2019s hard to describe. The programs or departments that close are typically the ones that make the least amount of money; I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s the case here, but Continuing Education is one of the cornerstones of Camosun\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n

Students come to Camosun for all kinds of different reasons; students often come to Continuing Education to further personal interests. Losing Continuing Education\u2014although the college has said it may return\u2014may not impact the degrees or certificates the college offers, but it makes that casual education for education\u2019s sake unavailable through Camosun, and that\u2019s a loss.<\/p>\n

Students who come to school out of personal interest\u2014as those taking Continuing Education courses often do\u2014can end up discovering where their passions or abilities and the needs of society meet, and that’s a big part of what education is about.<\/p>\n

Losing Continuing Education, restaurants losing business, the delicate state of the economy\u2026 Cue up the Zen music, and don\u2019t forget to breathe. It\u2019s a fine sunny summer morning in Victoria. There are even fewer sounds at Camosun today than there were yesterday. But we’re also one day closer than we were yesterday to leaving this pandemic behind. Breathe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a fine sunny summer morning in Victoria. There isn\u2019t a sound save for the fan stirring warm air about in the corner, but I have to practice some deep breathing. I even put some Zen music on YouTube. It\u2019s exactly what it sounds like\u2014something that\u2019s meant to help guests relax and get in touch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19671,"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":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725","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=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19727,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions\/19727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}