Camosun College is situated in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. As of the 2013-2014 monetary year, it had more than 19,000 full-time and low maintenance understudies (9,793 FTEs)[1] between its Lansdowne and Interurban grounds. Every year Camosun invites more than 1,000 Aboriginal understudies from 50 Nations including Métis and Inuit bunches, and more than 1,100 International understudies from 60 unique nations.
Camosun College likewise gives contract preparing chances to nearby business; exploration, development and prototyping administrations for industry; and very much prepared community understudies for managers. With more than 900 representatives and a financial plan of over $105 million, Camosun is one of Victoria's main 10 businesses and creates more than $1.2 billion in monetary effect in British Columbia consistently.
The Lansdowne grounds gives college exchange and get to programs, and additionally profession, specialized and professional projects in the fields of expressions of the human experience, sciences, business, wellbeing and human administrations. The Interurban grounds conveys programs in the exchanges, advancements, business, game and practice training, and get to programs. The understudy paper, The Nexus, is an individual from CUP.
The empowering enactment is the College and Institute Act.
Camosun College selected its first understudies in September 1971 when it opened as a two-year foundation offering college exchange, professional and overhauling courses to the inhabitants of southern Vancouver Island. The foundations of the school started in 1914 when the Young Building[5] was worked as Victoria's first Normal School on part of a 7.5 section of land plot having a place with the Hudson's Bay Company, now part of the Lansdowne Campus. The school's enlistment at the time was around 275.
Amid the second world war, the Young Building was changed over into a military healing center. In 1946, the building was come back to its unique capacity as an instructive organization shared between the Normal School and Victoria College, which were joined in 1955.
In 1967 the Normal School and Victoria College moved to the site of the Gordon Head Campus of the University of Victoria and the Institute of Adult Studies was set up by the Greater Victoria School Board. The Institute of Adult Studies was situated in what is right now the Ewing Building, and was the primary focus in Canada to offer daytime courses for grown-ups wishing to move up to secondary school graduation. From the beginning of the Institute, nearby enthusiasm for a junior college developed. On October 9, 1970, Victoria inhabitants voted for building up a school, and plans for "Juan de Fuca" College were taken after. The common government formally endorsed the school on October 27, 1970.
In 1971 the school councilors voted on a name change, and "Camosun" (declared Cam-O-sun) was picked, as it was an early name for Victoria. It is initially a Lkwungen (Songhees) name for a range of Victoria where diverse waters meet and are changed. By September 1971 the last strides toward the acknowledgment of a school were taken when Camosun (Lansdowne grounds) and the BC Vocational School (Interurban grounds) converged to wind up BC's ninth junior college.
The exchange mark with the words `Camosun College` was documented with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office Canadian Trade-marks database on 2008-02-22.
Lansdowne
The Lansdowne grounds is found high at the intersection of Lansdowne and Foul Bay Roads, offering clear perspectives of Victoria and the Olympic mountains. Every semester, the Lansdowne grounds has a huge number of understudies enlisted in college exchange, school preliminary and access programs and additionally profession programs in expressions, science, business, wellbeing and human administrations.
The grounds offices are encompassed by tree-lined grounds. The Alan Batey Library, opened in 1991, is found noticeably in the focal point of the grounds. The Dental Health Education Center, opened in 1990, remains inverse the Library. The most current office on grounds is the Wilna Thomas Building with its abutting Cultural Center.
The Isabel Dawson building is the inside for most understudy administrations including data and enlistment, scholarly prompting, money related guide, appraisal, handicap bolster administrations, universal understudy administrations, advising and the profession asset focus. The Fisher building houses the grounds book shop and cafeteria, and also classrooms, labs and workplaces for nursing, science, material science, science and different controls. The Paul Building and Richmond House additionally give space to classrooms, labs and workplaces. The Child Care Center takes care of around 25 youngsters on grounds.
In the southeast corner of the grounds the Dunlop House is a legacy building which houses the Hotel and Restaurant Management system's understudy worked eatery. Rather than every one of the offices on grounds, the 1914 Young Building with its celebrated clock tower and Italian Renaissance engineering, directs the south-west corner of the grounds as a memorable milestone in the city.
Camosun College's music program and the Victoria Conservatory of Music have shared an expanding on the Lansdowne grounds subsequent to 1991.
Opened in September 2012, Camosun's cutting edge therapeutic imaging office offers a two-year program in restorative radiography innovation.
Interurban
Cherry Tree Blossoms at Interurban Campus Situated in rustic Saanich, the Interurban grounds is in a nation like setting and roughly 15 minutes from downtown Victoria. Understudies go to classes at Interurban concentrated on exchanges, innovation, business or access programs.
Situated beside Interurban Road, the Campus Center is the main purpose of passage for individuals looking for data about Camosun projects and administrations. The Campus Center houses Information and Registration, the vocation asset focus, scholastic exhorting, advising, understudy and graduated class livelihood benefits, the book shop, library, wellness focus, Student Society workplaces and various regulatory workplaces, meeting rooms and classrooms. On the yard side of the building the alluring clock-tower confronts a shaft cut particularly for Camosun by Richard Hunt, as a major aspect of the 1994 Commonwealth Games legacy.
Amidst grounds sits the Helmut Huber Cook Training Center, where the grounds group and people in general can buy breakfast and lunch arranged by understudies in the Culinary Arts Foundation program. At night, part of the cafeteria is changed into the Classroom Restaurant, where culinary specialists in-preparing give a gourmet eating background.
On the north end of the grounds, the Jack White and John Drysdale structures house the workplaces of Continuing Education and Contract Training and the majority of Camosun's exchanges programs. A few section level, apprenticeship, pre-business and updating programs work year-round, all giving a powerful blend of in-class learning and hands-on shop work.
Ignoring the grounds, you'll discover the Technology Center and the Center for Business and Access. Joined together in the center, these structures highlight plant-filled chambers and intriguing design. In the grounds Child Care Center, babies, little children and preschoolers get top notch day by day care. The grounds is encompassed by common forest, fields and strolling trails.
Behind the grounds sits the new Vancouver Island Technology Park, giving simple access to Camosun workforce and understudies going into organizations with neighborhood industry and exploration ventures. Situated on the south side of the grounds, the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE), an inside for scholarly and athletic incredibleness, was finished in September 2008. The inside is an interesting organization between Camosun College and Pacific Sport Victoria and unites neighborhood and national-level game instruction, authority, research and athletic advancement under one rooftop.
With common financing got in September 2012,[9] Camosun's Center for Trades Education and Innovation (CTEI) is at present being worked on, with a culmination date of mid 2015. The undertaking administrator is CitySpaces Consulting Ltd., while the task designer is B+H Architects Inc. The new focus will incorporate another Marine and Metal Trades Center for the Welding, Sheet Metal, Metal Fabrication, Nautical and Ship Building and Repair programs, and in addition a Mechanical Trades Center including the Heavy Duty/Commercial Truck Transport and Automotive Service Technician programs. Existing exchanges structures will be upgraded and reconfigured.
