Camosun instructors adapt to online learningOn March 14, Camosun students received an email from college president Sherri Bell explaining that, due to the COVID-19 crisis, classes were being moved to “alternative delivery” methods. Everyone who attends the college had to shift and rearrange their lives and schedules, and so did Camosun instructors. Anthropology instructor Karoline Guelke and Carpentry instructor Theo […] Continue Reading |
Camosun library launches new service to send loans through mailOn Tuesday, April 28, the Camosun College library launched a service where it will send loans through the mail as a way to get library products into the hands of students and staff during the online summer semester. Camosun director of learning services Sybil Harrison says the point is to get books, DVDs, and audiobooks […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun instructor Marina Jaffey on teaching through COVID-19 crisisKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want to […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Marketing students take fundraising online during COVID-19Camosun College Marketing students have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and taken their fundraising efforts online. Students in Marketing 420 (Marketing Project Management) recently raised through a silent online auction $18,400 in support of youth education and development in Zambia. The money went to Victoria-based international development organization VIDEA, and it allows students in Zambia […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers coaches talk triumphs and hopesThese last few weeks have seemed a bit of a blur. The world is swept apart with the COVID-19 virus, and it’s hard to think of anything else. However, it’s important to try and remind ourselves about the things that give us joy. For lots of students, that includes sports, and here at Camosun, that […] Continue Reading |
“To have to close your doors is heartbreaking”: Camosun’s Sybil Harrison goes above and beyond during COVID-19 pandemicCamosun director of learning services Sybil Harrison has had some hard days recently. Some really hard days. She gets emotional recalling the day she locked the doors to the Alan Batey Library and Learning Commons last week. It was the hardest day of her 30-year career, and it came as a result of the COVID-19 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student manages her time as a professional cyclistThird-year Camosun Sports Management student Callie Swan recently signed a deal with Macogep Tornatech Girodins de Bordeaux, an all-women pro cycling team from Quebec. Swan is living and training in Tucson, Arizona, while taking her Camosun classes online. “Last year I applied to the team I am on, and they accepted,” says Swan. “Camosun had […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Indigenous Studies instructor Hjalmer Wenstob gets creativeKnow Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. Do you have an instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want […] Continue Reading |
Chargers alumni create community through basketballTwo Camosun alumni are really taking to heart the meaning of paying it forward. After Jade Montgomery-Waardenburg and Ashley McGinnis graduated from Camosun’s Early Childhood Education and Community, Family and Child Studies programs, respectively, and hung up their Camosun Chargers women’s basketball uniforms, they were sponsored by the Indigenous Sport, Physical Activity & Recreation Council […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student helps college create virtual reality witness blanketCamosun College has hired a team to create a virtual reality witness blanket, inspired by traditional Indigenous woven blankets. Second-year Camosun visual art student Louise Black, Camosun Innovates director Richard Gale, and applied research and development technologist Matt Zeleny recently went to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to spend several days scanning […] Continue Reading |
