{"id":23026,"date":"2022-09-21T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23026"},"modified":"2022-09-15T15:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T22:43:05","slug":"ccss-launches-new-camosun-campus-life-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/09\/21\/ccss-launches-new-camosun-campus-life-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"CCSS launches new Camosun Campus Life Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

After seeing a lack of student life on campus, Camosun College Student Society outreach and advocacy coordinator Michael Glover and clubs and events coordinator Tagg Kelt have created the Camosun Campus Life Guide.<\/p>\n

The Camosun Campus Life Guide is a guide for students to learn about upcoming events and activities they can participate in. A handful of students were hired to design the guide, and now, it\u2019s a centralized source for students to learn about events happening that could enrich their on-campus life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent a lot of time thinking about campus life, and I\u2019m always struggling with this idea that there is no campus life,\u201d says Glover. \u201cAnd it\u2019s really hard to create campus life here because it\u2019s hard to get space… There are so many competing priorities at Camosun and not enough resources, so that\u2019s a struggle. But there are always faculty and staff trying to create student life, but there\u2019s no single place we can go and see where it all is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Camosun College Student Society\u2019s new Camosun Campus Life Guide is available around campus now (photo by Greg Pratt\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are several reasons why Glover believes this guide will be important. He says it will help students meet new friends, create long-lasting connections, and help new students adjust and settle into Victoria if they have moved here from elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the connections you make in your early life are often when you make some of your deepest friendships, and that impacts your whole life going forward,\u201d says Glover. \u201cThe other thing is now, about 15 percent of our student body are international students. And it\u2019s hard enough if you come to Victoria and get yourself established in a community… They want to meet everyone and make connections.\u201d<\/p>\n

With rent and grocery prices skyrocketing, many students must work part-time or full-time jobs while juggling school responsibilities as well. Because of this, students are busy and they don\u2019t have time to search for campus events, so Glover hopes the guide will make it easier for them to participate in student life.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents don\u2019t have the time they used to have,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m stepping up to fill the gap, so they have to organize less to have the same experience. I have paid work experience that is running these interactions, as well as faculty and staff who are stepping up to run clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n

While listings for student events and activities are available on the CCSS website, Glover hopes that having a physical guide around campus will remind students to check out what\u2019s happening around campus more often.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of having a physical guide is less about having a physical guide, but it will create awareness,\u201d says Glover. \u201cI can put it up in every department\u2019s office and everywhere people will go, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, yeah.\u2019 It\u2019s a physical reminder to go subscribe to our calendar, so you know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Campus Life Guide will be available around campus and as a PDF at camosunstudent.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After seeing a lack of student life on campus, Camosun College Student Society outreach and advocacy coordinator Michael Glover and clubs and events coordinator Tagg Kelt have created the Camosun Campus Life Guide. The Camosun Campus Life Guide is a guide for students to learn about upcoming events and activities they can participate in. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23027,"comment_status":"closed","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":[13,273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-september-21-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23026","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=23026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23036,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23026\/revisions\/23036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}