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The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) has launched the Get Out the Vote campaign ahead of the federal election on September 20. CASA is launching the non-partisan campaign, which aims to enable students to make an informed vote, alongside 24 student associations nationwide, including the Camosun College Student Society (CCSS). CCSS external executive Puneet […]

When students return to campus in September, they will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to access certain parts of campus, although not to attend classes. As well, masks are now again required in all indoor public spaces in British Columbia, which includes common areas of post-secondary institutions, such as classrooms, stairwells, libraries, and […]

Blockchain training is coming to Camosun College. Training in Blockchain—a digital ledger of transactions distributed across a network of computers, making it very difficult to hack—will take place through the college’s recently reopened Continuing Education department. Camosun director of strategic initiatives/acting director of Continuing Education and Contract Training Jen Stone says Blockchain training at the […]

The British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) and the Alberta Student Executive Council recently launched Influence the Vote, a new campaign aimed at providing students the incentive and information to make an informed vote in the upcoming federal election, taking place on September 20. BCFS chairperson Melissa Chirino says the BCFS is taking a non-partisan […]

20 Indigenous students in Canada’s north recently took part in a four-month online transition program through Camosun College. The program aims to prepare students for post-secondary and to help with a transition that meets their cultural and educational needs. When the students completed the program, at the end of July, they then had an option […]

The Camosun Express, a free shuttle service for Camosun students and staff that goes between the Lansdowne and Interurban campuses and to the West Shore, won’t be running for the fall 2021 semester. Camosun College manager of sustainability, transportation and parking Shannon Craig says the decision was made because of the environmental and financial sustainability […]

Camosun College has announced its next president. Lane Trotter will be president of Camosun starting in January 2022. Trotter is currently the president of Vancouver’s Langara College and has 28 years of experience at a senior level in post-secondary. Trotter will replace Sherri Bell, who has been the Camosun president for over six years. Trotter’s […]

On Monday, July 5, the provincial government released final guidelines for a full return to campus in the fall. The provincial COVID-19 Return-to-Campus Guidelines say that on September 7 at the earliest, masks will be a personal choice on campuses, there will be normal social contact, and there will be no occupancy limits for workspaces. […]

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) and Camosun College are holding a contest for vaccinated students, and the grand-prize winner is going to walk away with a semester’s worth of free tuition. The #CamVax: Vaccination for Education contest is open to all students who receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by September 7 […]

For Camosun School of Access dean Ian Humphries, the private smudging ceremony and launch of Camosun’s new Indigenous canoe into the Gorge waterway on Monday, July 21—National Indigenous Peoples Day—was a special experience. Considering the many hundreds of bodies of Indigenous children that have been discovered across Canada recently, Humphries knows work in reconciliation will […]