{"id":23442,"date":"2023-01-09T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=23442"},"modified":"2023-01-11T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:59:48","slug":"camosun-college-student-society-talks-2023-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/01\/09\/camosun-college-student-society-talks-2023-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College Student Society talks 2023 plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

New tuition deadlines suddenly introduced by the college earlier this year and skyrocketing living prices in Victoria are two issues that targeted Camosun students during 2022. To combat these issues, the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) has negotiated with the college on their new tuition deadlines and campaigned alongside the British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) and Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) for higher income thresholds on BC\u2019s repayment plan and the elimination of student loan interest on the federal level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CCSS external executive Jessie Niikoi says the CCSS\u2019 biggest accomplishment of 2022 was negotiating with the college on their new tuition deadline.<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Student Society external executive Jessie Niikoi (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFor the CCSS, the one thing we are so proud of being able to do is have negotiations surrounding the tuition deadline,\u201d says Niikoi. \u201c[The deadline change] was very surprising and came at the wrong time, so we were able to negotiate and decide that if you pay half your tuition, it\u2019s better, and you won\u2019t be dropped from your classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, the CCSS hopes to avoid a tuition increase for international students like what recently happened elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, we\u2019re going to keep an eye on things that are happening in the college, especially on tuition increase because one of our sister schools, which is Emily Carr, just had their tuition increase happen, and it affected a lot of people because their tuition went up 30 percent for the next group of international students,\u201d says Niikoi. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the things that are happening right now over there, so that\u2019s why we\u2019re going to keep an eye on things that are happening here to make sure we don\u2019t have those same things happening as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alongside avoiding another tuition increase for international students, the CCSS wants to run a campaign to make students and the college more aware of how expensive school is for international students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then also making sure to work with the college more on various campaigns,\u201d she says, \u201cso we\u2019re going to run the international student campaign that\u2019s run by the BCFS next semester to bring awareness for how expensive tuition is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CCSS also wants to create more student engagement this year by getting students involved in activities and campaigns that impact them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to get more student engagement with our people and be able to do more things with them, so we\u2019re going to keep running our Club Days, and just being able to do things that will teach our students about things that impact them,\u201d says Niikoi. \u201cAnd then also celebrate the things that we were able to achieve over the past year. So, having those and having celebrations that celebrate the diversity on campus, we\u2019re just looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New tuition deadlines suddenly introduced by the college earlier this year and skyrocketing living prices in Victoria are two issues that targeted Camosun students during 2022. To combat these issues, the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) has negotiated with the college on their new tuition deadlines and campaigned alongside the British Columbia Federation of Students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23344,"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":[13,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-january-9-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442","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=23442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23443,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23442\/revisions\/23443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}