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Camosun College is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It’s been a long journey, and today Camosun offers over 160 programs to 19,000 students per year from over 80 countries, including more than 2,100 international students and 1,200 Indigenous students. Of course, getting to this point hasn’t always been smooth, which makes sense: 50 years […]

On September 16, 1971, Camosun College first opened its doors to students. This year, the college is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and it got us thinking about how far Camosun has come in 50 years. But where does it need to go from here? We tapped into our Nexus team to get, straight from the […]

Last month, we showed what Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus looked like during the fall 2020 semester. Ravaged by the COVID-19 crisis, it was stark, barren, empty. We journeyed out to Interurban to investigate what it looked like out there, and found more of the same emptiness. Here’s a peek into what the campus looks like […]

Here in the fall 2020 semester, any course that can be taken online is being taken online due to the COVID-19 crisis, leaving Camosun College’s Lansdowne campus a ghost town. Here’s a look at the campus one chilly October morning.                               […]

Whether we like it or not, we live in a society that has high standards. And the pressure to conform to these standards can take a toll on almost anyone’s mental health—it’s impossible for each person to meet every one of those societal expectations. But, as a person of colour, I can tell you that […]

Every year, Camosun welcomes a couple thousand international students from a vast range of countries who come here to pursue educational goals and to participate in an enriching cultural exchange. The experience of studying abroad brings opportunities to increase self knowledge, as the students live in a new environment and experience a huge spectrum of […]

At around 8 pm on Saturday, March 14, Camosun students were informed by email that the college would be transitioning to alternate modes of instruction and assessment as part of measures to support physical distancing due to the COVID-19 crisis. Under normal circumstances, a major shift in institutional operations would be the result of long-term […]

It was only at the end of April, when I was done with my last final exam of the term, that I could finally acknowledge that I felt some sort of emptiness in regard to completing my program at Camosun. It felt strange to realize that I had left the campus for the last time […]

[Note: This story was written before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic hit Victoria.] Being a post-secondary student—or at least a somewhat successful one—requires a great level of commitment. If it’s not dealing with due dates it’s bigger-picture academic goals, such as maintaining a favourable GPA so you can get bursaries or be able to […]