Camosun Social Work student takes home co-op awardSecond-year Social Work student Matthew Hicks was recently awarded Camosun College’s 2021 Yvonne Thompson Page (YTP) Co-op Student of the Year Award. Hicks worked as an electrician for 20 years before suffering a workplace injury and returning to school at age 43. “After a couple years of appointments they deemed it a permanent disability, which […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Automotive instructor Patrick Jones receives excellence awardThe Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship Award for Excellence in Apprenticeship Education may be a mouthful to say, but for one Camosun instructor, it’s an unexpected acknowledgement of a role passionately performed. Automotive Service Technician instructor and program leader Patrick Jones has been teaching at Camosun for 12 years, and winning the award came […] Continue Reading |
Camosun Massage Therapy students offer complimentary massages through New Roads Therapeutic Recovery CommunityAs part of their outreach program, Camosun College Massage Therapy students have partnered with New Roads Therapeutic Recovery Community in View Royal to offer complimentary messages to residents in treatment. New Roads is open to men over the age of 19 who are recovering from substance misuse. The Massage Therapy program typically requires outreach during […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College to hold Sexualized Violence Awareness WeekFrom February 14 to 18, Camosun will be hosting a series of online workshops discussing sexualized and gender-based violence prevention. The interactive event is organized by Camosun’s Office of Student Support (OSS) and is available for both students and staff. Because it is online this year, attendees have the opportunity to participate as much or […] Continue Reading |
Camosun electric vehicle maintenance training pilot programs a successIn March of last year, the province contributed $440,000 toward electric vehicle maintenance training at post-secondary institutions, and Camosun College is among the first four schools in the province to offer this training. The pilot courses began in mid-November of 2021. They ran for a week, with an additional six hours of online work. Each […] Continue Reading |
Camosun receives $590,000 to help students who wish to study abroadCamosun College recently received a $500,000 grant from Colleges and Institutes Canada through the Global Skills Opportunity (GSO) program, which will allow students to experience other cultures through a study-abroad program. In addition to the GSO Grant, Camosun has received a further $90,000 through the One World Scholarship from the Irving K. Barber British Columbia […] Continue Reading |
Criminal Justice students organize clothing drive for Our PlaceStudents in Camosun College’s Criminal Justice program finished off the fall 2021 semester by collecting a classroom-sized clothing donation for Our Place. The students gathered donations from all over Victoria, which, once delivered, were all re-homed within days. Second-year student Sean Eversfield says that “basically everyone” in the second year of the Criminal Justice program […] Continue Reading |
Company launches first software-testing program for Indigenous students in CanadaPLATO Testing, Canada’s only Indigenous-staffed and Indigenous-led software testing company, recently launched its Indigenous Software Tester Training Course in Victoria for the first time. The company, based in New Brunswick, offers the program to Indigenous people in other cities across Canada and is now offering it at the Camosun Coastal Centre (there is no connection […] Continue Reading |
Camosun College closed today, classes to resume on MondayBoth Camosun College campuses are closed today, Thursday, January 6, due to weather conditions. Classes are resuming as scheduled on Monday, January 10. The college is following the advice of provincial health officer Bonnie Henry and resuming with in-person classes; several other post-secondary institutions in the province have switched back to online learning temporarily due […] Continue Reading |
Charles Parkinson steps back from coaching Camosun ChargersCamosun Chargers men’s volleyball head coach Charles Parkinson has announced that he is stepping back from coaching. Parkinson—who started with the Chargers in 2007 and is nicknamed the “winningest coach” that Camosun has ever had—says that although he’s taking a break from coaching, he’ll still be working at the college. “I’m faculty here,” says Parkinson. […] Continue Reading |
