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With back to school season on the horizon, Camosun College is preparing to open its doors to thousands of new and returning students. From Academic Advising to Counselling and much more, the college’s Student Affairs department is ready to help students succeed even before they first arrive on campus. 

From September 3-5 the Camosun College family will be doing our best to welcome new and returning students to our campuses. We'll be out in full-force answering questions, providing directions, and handing out snacks and information to support you during your first days at Camosun.

Camosun student Kasi Schnablegger directs her passion for health care and the human body towards training for a career as an x-ray technologist.

On a daily basis, x-ray technologist Phillip Yee draws on the teamwork and communication skills that he learned at Camosun.

A Digital Earth that acts as a central nervous system for the surface of the entire planet is the focus of a presentation by Camosun College civil engineering instructor Perry Peterson to an international audience in Japan this week. Peterson, an instructor with the School of Trades and Technology at the college, is presenting his solutions for a Digital Earth to the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Yokohama, Japan.

Starting this September, Camosun is offering new and exciting programs that will equip students with the skills to succeed in the rapidly expanding technology and health care fields.

The Board of Governors at Camosun College is welcoming a new appointment. Tanya Clarmont is appointed as a new board member effective July 31, 2019 for a term ending July 31, 2020.

July 2019 will mark several new starts for newly appointed Chargers Women’s Basketball Head Coach, Justin Thiessen, who will be tying the knot with his fiancé on the 20th and setting up residence in Victoria later this month.

Camosun is proud to congratulate long-time donors and friends of the college, Lynda and Murray Farmer, on receiving the Order of British Columbia today, Friday, June 28.

The Camosun Chargers Men's Volleyball team had the great fortune to scrimmage with the Canadian Armed Forces team (CISM) as part of a training camp held in Victoria, June 22.

Camosun College has agreed to start exploratory discussions with the Lexi Development Group around the feasibility to build a film studio, a sound stage and educational facilities for students on the Interurban campus.

The Camosun College Board of Governors has elected Laylee Rohani as their new Chair. Rohani assumes the role from Ron Rice, effective Aug. 1, 2019.

Thousands of graduates and guests are expected to attend Camosun College’s 2019 Graduation over four ceremonies this Wednesday and Thursday, June 19 and 20 at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence, Camosun College, Interurban Campus.

Fresh off her third and final season with the Camosun College Chargers, women’s basketball forward Mia Roberts is back into the swing of things – training full-time, coaching part-time and preparing for university life on the east coast where she will suit up for the Acadia Axewomen (Wolfville, Nova Scotia), who finished sixth at the 2019 U Sports National Championships.

Fifteen students from Camosun College’s Fine Furniture program used the fundamentals learned in the first eight months of the program to design and build their signature chairs. The finished chairs are part of Willing and Maple: Seating in Western Maple at the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre.