Camosun gets second-highest enrollment rates of former foster children in BCSince 2017, the provincial government has been giving former foster children free post-secondary education, and Camosun College has the second-highest enrollment rates of these students of any BC post-secondary institution. Camosun vice president of student experience Joan Yates couldn’t be prouder. “The principles and values we have as a college about being life-changing and transformational […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Steve McKinnon on sushi and “spare time” in soccer seasonKnow 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 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun’s Nicole Kilburn incorporates Indigenous knowledge into field schoolThe world of archeology is changing, and Camosun Anthropology instructor Nicole Kilburn and the Archaeology Field Assistant program she developed are at the forefront of that change. Kilburn developed the program in 2008 to fill a skills gap in the industry. “Generally, if you are working [in the field] you have an undergrad in Anthropology […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers golfers return from national golf championshipsThe Camosun Chargers golf team travelled to Medicine Hat, Alberta last month to compete in the 2018 Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) championships. The team competed at Desert Blume Golf Club from October 16 to 19 and placed 8 out of 11. Chargers golf head coach Doug Hastie says that although the team “actually overperformed […] Continue Reading |
Camosun’s Sandra Christensen on life as a teacher and as a studentKnow 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 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Criminal Justice alumnus gets accolades as law firm CEOAlistair Vigier is a man of many lives. He currently lives in Toronto and owns his own law firm; in 2009, he graduated from Camosun’s Criminal Justice program. Prior to that, he was busy getting shot at in the military. Literally: he was standing near a target in the woods with his troops one day […] Continue Reading |
Trying to conjure Bloody Mary at Camosun’s Lansdowne campusEver have one of those moments when you question your sanity? Welp, for me, that moment happened on a recent Saturday night in one of the bathrooms in the Richmond House at Camosun’s Lansdowne campus. I stood huddled in the corner of a rusty bathtub, heart pounding, thoroughly regretting my life choices, including eating Mucho […] Continue Reading |
Camosun student opens new gymnastics facilitySecond-year Sport Management student Lucas Tiefenbach started coaching gymnastics when he was 13 years old; at 17, he became one of Canada’s youngest nationally certified coaches. After coaching the Western Australian men’s national team he eventually moved to China to work as Inspire Sports’ technical director, setting up China’s first recreational gymnastic centres. Now, he’s […] Continue Reading |
Know Your Profs: Chemistry instructor Tatiana Popa on empowering women in mathematicsKnow 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 […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Chargers volleyball teams get ready for seasonThe Camosun Chargers men’s and women’s volleyball teams are getting ready for their season to begin. The men’s team has four consecutive Pacific Western Athletic Association (PACWEST) championship titles to their name and are aiming to win their fifth consecutive championship. Head coach Charles Parkinson laughs when asked how he plans to fit six new […] Continue Reading |
