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When the provincial shutdown began in mid-March—before wearing masks was widely recommended—former Camosun Business Administration student and Camosun College Student Society Interurban director Ellen Young began sewing masks as an avenue to empowerment in turbulent times. “When this whole thing started, I was feeling very down about it all,” she says. “It was scary and […]

Update: Camosun College has delayed the launch of this program until 2021 due to the COVID-19 crisis. Camosun College is filled with all kinds of change right now, and part of that change is a new multi-disciplinary program being offered in the fall. The college will be launching an online-only eight-month certificate program, Mental Health, […]

On 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 […]

On 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 […]

Know 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 […]

Camosun 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 […]

These 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 […]

Camosun 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 […]