Camosun to establish open education initiative with grant moneyCamosun College recently received $32,250 from BCcampus in order to establish the Open Education Demonstration Initiative. The college received the money in the form of an Institutional Sustainability Grant from BCcampus—a publicly funded organization that aims to make post-secondary education accessible to everyone—and will use it to redevelop 10 courses with open textbooks through a […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Business Study Group forms to help Business studentsStudying is never easy. It could be due to lack of personal discipline, lack of spare time in a busy schedule, or lack of ability to concentrate for more than a minute at a time. Whatever the reason, sitting down to hit the books can be an arduous task—one that most Camosun students would probably […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun Economics instructor Becky Mason adds it all upKnow 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 who you would like to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you […] Continue Reading |
Camosun English instructor Laurie Elmquist releases new children’s bookWriting, as any writer will tell you, is hard work. Writers work day and night to provide readers with quality material that not only entertains but also tells the truth and accurately represents the writer’s point of view. Camosun English instructor Laurie Elmquist writes children’s books when she’s not teaching, and she follows that formula […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Office of Student Support aims to help struggling studentsIt can be hard to be a student. The feeling of being stretched too thin is constant for many Camosun students. But when students pay their fees at the college, that includes counselling and student support services. Camosun has two student support managers (one for each campus) in the Office of Student Support: Jenny Holder […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun’s Robin Fast on talking to instructors and learning how to learnKnow 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 who you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want […] Continue Reading |
Camosun instructor strives to understand human motives with art“The immediacy of a moment in time that you can’t rehearse. An unscripted, honest event. It’s not fiction. Once it’s been done before it becomes fictive. Not an honest moment in time.” This is one of Camosun Visual Arts instructor John Boehme’s MOs in regard to his performance art. Whether he is performing in Minsk, […] Continue Reading |
Camosun instructor sheds anthropological light on food with new bookWhen we are sitting down to a wholesome supper, do we ever wonder where it comes from? Do we ask ourselves what methods are used to provide our plate of spaghetti, and what each ingredient might go through, or where it might come from? When we think, “I feel like Italian tonight,” do we wonder […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Camosun instructor Jody Watson on being humbled by technologyKnow 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 |
Camosun Business student pursues boxing dream outside of classroomMost of us haven’t figured ourselves out yet. Most of us have an idea in mind about some dream or another that we would like to fulfill, and most of us kind of wing it every day in hopes that someday we might get a chance to do chase the dream. Bryan Colwell has taken […] Continue Reading |
