Camosun Alumni

A message from Camosun College President Sherri Bell
March 22, 2020

Dear friends and supporters,

I wanted to provide you with an update of the actions that Camosun College is taking to protect the health and well-being of our community. We are committed to doing our best to provide ongoing support and services to our students, employees and you, our alumni and donors, during this challenging and complex time. We have worked intensively in the past ten days to ensure we have a functioning institution during these difficult times for our students.

As global concerns surrounding COVID-19 continue to grow, we are taking proactive steps to maintain and enhance social distancing and prioritize the health and safety of our community, including students, employees and campus visitors. To that end, in the past week, we have transitioned studies and student services from face-to-face to alternative methods of delivery to promote social distancing. All work-related travel is suspended. Starting March 18, employees who were able to, started working from home.

Many of our students are now facing significant economic challenges as part-time and full-time work disappears for them and their families. Last fall we reached out to you, our alumni and donors to support the Erasing Barriers campaign. We are currently using these funds to help any of our students who will be facing challenges in the days and weeks to come. Now more than ever, our students need our support. If you are able, I am asking you for your support, small or large, so that we can provide the assistance our students need now.

Donate here: https://bit.ly/39aKybZ

Also if you wish to speak to someone from our Advancement team, please feel free to reach out: email [email protected] or phone 250-370-4233.

Thank you for being part of our college family! I wish you all good health as we continue to be resilient and strong, working together, to get through this pandemic.

Sherri Bell
President
Camosun College

Camosun’s tuition-free, 8-week career-exploration program gives you the strategies and techniques to set sustainable career and educational goals. Get started by attending an information session on any Monday (except holidays) from 11am - noon, at Camosun College, located at Center Business and Access Building (CBA), Room 113, Interurban Campus. There are still seats available in the next program beginning on March 3! camosun.ca/best

Camosun alum and residential school survivor Eddy Charlie helped kickstart the local movement at the college while he was a student. He has taken his story to the municipal and provincial level. Listen to his story here, and please take time honour Eddy and other Indigenous people who were impacted by the residential school system.

Eddy Charlie shares his story of survival for Orange Shirt Day Orange Shirt Day is held annually on September 30th, a time of year when Indigenous children were removed from their homes and taken to residential schools. ...

We're excited that Camosun will have free menstrual products available for students (and everyone!) in the Lansdowne library washrooms! This pilot project was spearheaded by a Camosun alumna and current library employee.

Camosun will provide free menstrual products in women’s and men’s washrooms on campus starting in September! The products will be available in the Library and Learning Commons washrooms on Lansdowne campus.

“Students are front of mind because many experience financial hardship,” says librarian Robbyn Lanning. “The menstrual products, however, are for everyone who comes to campus. They’re for anyone who works here, studies here, or visits as a guest.”

Read the story: http://bit.ly/2MEk8IN

Camosun College Student Society - CCSS Camosun Library

Happy Friday, alums! ☀️
What are you up to for the long weekend? Comment with one (or a few!) emoji below!

Phillip Yee, a Camosun College alum who graduated from the medical radiography program in 2016, tells us about a day on the job as an x-ray technologist.

“When you take an x-ray, you don’t just put the body part in the machine and press a button,” he says. “You have to get the room ready, prepare the patient, and make sure you’re clear about what you’re supposed to x-ray. You have to balance what the doctors want and what the patient can do, so you need to get very creative about how to get the images.”

Read Phillip's story here: http://bit.ly/2YvkpTL

It was a delight to meet Camosun alumna Sarah Grindler (class of 2013) at her art studio on Salt Spring Island! We’re working on a special top secret project with her and we can’t wait to show everyone.

Sarah Grindler Art

Today is World Emoji Day!
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Alums, describe your Camosun College experience in one emoji in the comments below.

Camosun alum Logan Hunder has written two genre-subverting novels since completing the Criminal Justice program in 2013. Now employed full-time at the Royal Canadian Navy, he's finding it a little more difficult to find the time to finish his third.

Learn about more about his work and process: https://bit.ly/2G8IFRx

Via Nexus Newspaper

Camosun alumnus toys with genre expectations with new book | Nexus newspaper Local author Logan Hunder recently released his second novel, Astro-Nuts, but six years ago, he was a Camosun student about to graduate from the Criminal

We look forward to seeing Camosun College alums take over the Party Deck at the July 8 Victoria HarbourCats game! Just a few tickets are left - be sure to get yours at the special $10/each alumni rate before they sell out. Buy tickets online: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/camosun-alumni-harbourcats-baseball-game-tickets-64636336021