Camosun
received the visit of 33 grade 5 students from Vic
West elementary, our future “Class of 2018”.
Larry Chung, Program Leader for 1st year Business
Administration and Julie St-Pierre, Co-op Marketing
Assistant organized the campus visit for the
students.
Each student was given
a Camosun College “Future Graduates”
t-shirt to take home and a lunch consisting of pizza
lunch.
The students were
welcomed to the Interurban Campus, toured the
Business, Trades, Technologies and Culinary Art
areas.
A special thank you
to staff and faculty who volunteered to assist with
this successful event: Sonja MacLeod, April
Atkins, Neil Porter, Alan Duncan, Nanette Plante,
Norm Dishkin, Jerry Oetting, Gilbert Noussitou,
Tessa Goodwin and Maelina De Grasse.
At the annual
BC HRMA conference held in Victoria last week and wanted to tell
you that the Rising Star Award was given to our very own
Meg Burrows, a recent graduate of the Advanced HRM program!!!
The Rising Star Award recognizes and publicly honours a BC HRMA member who is
'lighting the HR community on fire'. This award recognizes
the individuals who hold the future of our profession in their
hands and are the lifeblood for many of BC HRMA's volunteer
committees.
Meg will graduating in June and
has been working for the BC Public Service for the last few
years…Meg is an A+ student…
The
Camosun Chapter of Delta Epsilon Chi (DEC) competed
in the 48th annual
International Career Development Conference in
Anaheim, California April 22nd through the 25th.
The chapter sent nine members to compete in a
combination of individual and team events and
brought home four awards. Christopher Paine and
Jonathan Gehrts were awarded first place for their
performance in the prestigious Financial Statement
Analysis Competition. In the Entrepreneurship
Event, John Sargent was called to the stage as a
finalist for his business plan to start a local
pizza chain which markets customizable pizzas
prepared in under three minutes. Additionally,
Heather Lane and Christopher Paine were recognized
with National Honor Awards for their high scholastic
achievement and participation in Delta Epsilon Chi
Activities.
More than 1600 students, advisors and judges
attended the Anaheim Conference, representing
chapters from across the US and Canada. Students
had an opportunity to compete in one of 20 events
that are classified as a case study, or business
simulation, or prepared business presentation.
Events are tied to one of the following areas of
study: Management, Marketing and Sales, Accounting
and Finance, Hospitality, Design, Travel and
Tourism, Business Law and Ethics, Food Service, and
Entrepreneurship.
DEC Camosun is a business club which strives to
prepare its members for a variety of local and
international business related competitions. The
club also looks for ways in which they can give back
to their college and local communities through
promoting and contributing to charitable initiatives
like Choices Adoption and Counseling Services, Big
Brother and Big Sisters, the student food bank, and
the Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children.
The Club hosted a number of fundraising events
throughout the year which helped them raise money to
cover some of their travel and registration fees.
The club is extremely grateful for the generous
support received from local businesses that
contributed to this effort.
For more information on the club, visit our
website at
deccamosun.ca.
Did You
Know…that there are 161,000 non-profits and
charities in Canada?
...that Canada’s nonprofit and voluntary sector
is the second largest in the world?
...that the sector represents 7.1% of the gross
domestic product?
...that the sector is larger than automotive and
manufacturing generating $112 billion in revenues
and employing two million people?
...that the public sector employs 3,319,517 persons
both in and outside of Canada and pays $168,554,259
(in thousands) in wages and salaries?
Sound interesting?
Then sign up for our new course offered Fall
2009, Accounting 330 Government and NPO
Accounting , and learn about one of the largest
sectors within the Canadian economy!
Hire a Youth Week and SCCY (Victoria Canada
Centre For Youth) are coming to Camosun College.
Come and speak with Kim Benson from the Greater
Victoria Service Canada Centre. She and her team
will be here to talk with you about youth employment
opportunities and networking events for young people
and employers.:
Tuesday, June 9 – Campus Centre from 10:30 –
2:30 PM
Wednesday, June 10 – Fisher Building from
10:30 – 2:30 PM
Wednesday,
May 27, 2009 @ 6:00pm Victoria Marriott Inner Harbour
Salon B, Pacific Ballroom
728 Humboldt Street, Victoria
Students and potential students, this is your
chance to meet one on one with academic advisors
from CGA-BC. Discuss your course planning, practical
experience or career options with the people who
have all the answers! Network with other students
and CGA members at this FREE wine and cheese
designed just for you.
Jas Randhawa of CGA BC will present an update on
the CGA program of studies and talk about
opportunities for CGAs and students. We will have
plenty of door prizes and have invited local
‘Partners in Employment’ employers to come and
network with students.
Do you have a friend or colleague who is
interested in becoming a CGA? Bring him or her along
to the open house to get the facts. CGA academic
advisors can meet with you privately to discuss your
personal program. You do not need to be registered
in the CGA program to attend or to meet with an
advisor.
To register or for more information please
contact Denise McCullough at cga@mbdglaw.com or
(250) 480-1529.
Congratulations
to Business Students,Elizabeth
Taylor, Janele Halpenny, Mathieu Poirer, Conor Pommerville, Jeremy Beltgens, Graham
Wilson, Pengfei Qu, Sarah Ferguson, Nick Szwender, Brian Lalli, Douglas Lawson,
Nick Piluso, Heather Lane, Billy de Frias, Nathan Cartwright, Robert Ganzer and
Jeff Syrjah,
led by Finance Program Leader and instructor Mahesh Kumar, who
participated in the
2008/2009 BC Portfolio Management Challenge
competition. building a portfolio
that resulted in first-place in the college division, and second-place
overall. Last year, Camosun placed second overall as well.
The BC Portfolio Management Challenge is a
province-wide competition open to British Columbia
universities and colleges with commerce/business
programs. Teams put their finance and accounting
skills to the test while managing one million
dollars in hypothetical capital over five months. To
win, the teams must outperform the S&P 500 index
during the challenge period. The Camosun College
team not only beat the index but actually made a
profit during the same time period that the index
reported a loss.
“Bravo and congratulations to
Camosun College for holding onto their second-place
win yet again against tough competitors, and even
tougher times,” says instructor and team leader,
Mahesh Kumar. “Now that we’ve had an opportunity to
come second-place twice in consecutive years, we’re
poised to take the number one position in 2010!”
Read more of the article at canada.com.
The 3rd annual HS Business Simulation
Competition was held last Friday, April 3 at the
Camosun College Interurban Campus. School of
Business invites 65 students from 8 different high
schools, including Belmont, Oak Bay, Victoria High,
Mt Doug, Spectrum, Lambrick Park, Claremont, and
Parklands.
The students competed against each other through
6 rounds (quarters) as a simulated electronics
firm. The simulation called “Marketplace” had the
teams designing marketing programs and products and
attempting to boost or maximize their sales.
We were fortunate to
have nine Camosun Business Student volunteers on
hand to mentor the teams for the first three rounds
of the competition. This gave the high school
students an opportunity to ask questions, get
advice, and build a rapport with our students. In
the afternoon, the mentors stepped back to let the
teams complete the last three rounds on their own.
All team members,
student mentors, and high school teachers enjoyed a
lunch prepared by Camosun College’s culinary arts
students.
Awards
presentation followed a short break after the 6th
quarter as the University of Tennessee support team
tallied the results. The winning team was from
Parkland Secondary, taught by Mr. Roger Pires. In
second place, was the team from Spectrum taught by
Mr. Chuck Groot. The biggest turn around was by the
team from Belmont High, taught by Ms. Sarah Leswal.
The four members of the winning team each
received a $500 tuition credit for Camosun College.
The members of the second place team were awarded
$25 Visa gift cards and the members of the Best
Turnaround team received $25 ITunes cards.
First Place Team
Second Place Team
Best Turn Around
Team
(from Parkland Secondary School)
Joey Martin
Jared Griffis
Ian Mattock
Patrick McManus
(from Spectrum Community School
Jenn Chang
Brad Cranwell
Kyle Massey
Kara Shelley
(from Belmont High School)
Sophie
Shalkosky
Tom Schamhart
Sean Panton
Russell Kirk
We would like to thank Larry, Cynthia, and
Monique for all their hard work on this year’s
event.
The OA capstone project allows students, while
working in groups, to integrate the knowledge and
skills gained throughout their program by
conceiving, planning, and executing an event.
Some of the projects students are working on this
are:
Administration
for Action
Coming
together to make a difference in the lives of
children impacted by abuse. An Office Administration
student group have decided to fund raise for a very
worthy cause, Woman's Transition House of
Victoria, as their capstone project during the
final term. Six women have come together to make a
difference in the lives of children impacted by
abuse. Through this
web site, a raffle, and bottle drives, we hope
to raise $2000. To make this summer camp for kids a
reality, Women's Transition House of Victoria needs
$10,000!! Please donate and help us bring a summer
of fun and healing to the children of our city. Help us with this worthy cause
by donating to our giving page and passing this
information along to whomever you like. Thanks you
so much for supporting this great cause!
World
Partnership Walk - May 31 The World Partnership Walk is
Canada's largest annual event dedicated to
increasing awareness and raising funds to fight
global poverty. To make a donation to the OAS
Interurban, visit:
https://www.akfcnetcommunity.ca/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?pid=516&tab=1 So far this group has raised $1024!
So the next time you see a bake sale table in the
atrium or your attention is grabbed by a poster
advertising an interesting speaker or demonstration,
it may very well be an example of active and
integrated learning by students in the Applied
Business Technology Department.
with
David Hahn, CEO BC Ferries, Lindsay Hall,
CFO Gold Corp Inc., Steven Dagg, CEO
Copeland Communications
How large and local businesses are
dealing with the recent Economic
Situation.
What are employers looking for in
employees?
Learn what to look for in a company
when investing.
Date: April 2, 2009 Time: 5:30pm
Location: Campus Centre Room 124 Admission by Donation Suggested donation with valid student ID
$2 or food item
Suggested donation with student ID $5 All food items are donated to the
Camosun College Student Society's food back.
Mr. Walter Donald and The Donald Family established
this award in 1998 in memory of grandfather William
to recognize leadership “despite the odds”.
Consideration will be given to those Camosun
students and employees who have overcome exceptional
difficulties/barriers/tragedies in any of the
following areas: health, financial, personal, or
career and who have also demonstrated outstanding
leadership to others.
Students and employees may be nominated in any
one, or combination, of the following areas: 1) Health 2) Financial 3)
Personal 4) Career.
CLOSING DATE FOR
NOMINATIONS IS: March 31st, annually.
Submit nominations or direct questions to: Financial Aid Office
Lansdowne or Interurban Campus
Contact Numbers: 370-3596 (Lansdowne) & 370-4862
(Interurban)
The
African Awareness Committee (AAC) is inviting
eligible students to apply for the Leadership in
African Awareness Award by March 31st.
This award was created by
faculty, staff, and students on the AAC and is
intended to recognize the volunteer work of a
student who has demonstrated a leadership role and
strong commitment to raising awareness about the
achievements and issues pertaining to Africa.
Details of the award are
available here or
contact the Financial Aid Office. Last year our
first award was received by two students, Shanna
Dance from Arts & Science and Andria Young from the
School of Business. Shanna had volunteered in
Tanzania’s New Era School for nine months and Andria
had undertaken extensive work for the Grace of God
orphanage in Uganda. Details of Shanna and Andria’s
experience are available from the AAC web site (http://africa.disted.camosun.bc.ca).
Please encourage your students to apply for this
award. Anyone who is interested in supporting this
award is encouraged to send charitable donation to
the Camosun College Foundation.
Please contact Francis Yee at
yee@camosun.bc.ca or
250-370-3307 for further details.
The School of Business and Co-operative
Education & Student Employment are banding
together to help you get the answers by
hosting a Business Options and Career Fair.
Representatives from a variety of local
businesses will deliver a series of career
related information sessions to increase
students’ awareness of the different
sectors—what skills are required, what steps
to take to enter the market, and the
possible career prospects. Exhibitors will
be set up and ready to chat with you about
their business and potential career, co-op,
internship or summer employment
opportunities.
Attend career related information
sessions
Learn how to enter the market
Discover possible career prospects
Meet and chat with employers from
all business sectors
Build your personal network
Discover what skills are required in
the workplace
Find out where the best
opportunities lie
Investigate employment opportunities
Maximize your opportunities. Come well
prepared, dressed appropriately and with
resume in hand.
Winners of the Options Day & Career Fair
Draw Prizes!
iPod Touch - Chantale Dubeau
$250
Camosun Gift Card - Anisha Lagah
$80 Wild
Play Element Parks - Jun Zhang
Pick up your prize at the School
of Business Main Office, Reception Desk.
Camosun
College's Tourism Management students made a
great impression at the recent
Student Case Competition
at the Tourism Industry Conference in
Vancouver. Students were tasked with determining if
a Destination Marketing Organization should be
marketing focused or management focused. Our team
presented a convincing rationale for a management
focus - a progressive position that they were
passionate about!
Congratulations to Darryl Wilson, Breanne
Marsh, Ashley Kalynchuk and Srbo Tambic!
On
February 17 and 18, the Legal Office Assistant
students and faculty traveled to Vancouver for the
5th annual trip to the Vancouver Law Courts. This
trip is sponsored by the School of Business and is
organized by Patricia Gaudreault and Monique Tatum.
This unique opportunity includes spending one day
court watching in Provincial Youth Court, Supreme
Court, and Court of Appeal. The group also met with
Justice Nicole Garson of the B.C. Supreme Court for
a question and answer session in Courtroom 50 which
is the Heritage courtroom.
The day ended with an informal reception which was
attended by Supreme Court registry staff members, a
grad of the LOA program now working in Vancouver,
and a Vancouver lawyer, who chatted to the students
about opportunities available upon graduation.
The second day of the trip involved students court
watching various adult criminal matters in
Provincial Criminal Court at 222 Main Street. After
a morning of court watching, the students attended a
question and answer session with a Judicial Case
Manager.
Camosun College’s Legal Office Assistant Certificate
Program is a full-time, twelve-month program that
prepares students to work in various legal
settings.
Congratulations DEC
on your Outstanding Performance At The
Washington State Career Development Conference!
Business
students brought home the bling after competing in
the 43rd annual Washington State Career Development
Conference, February 18th through the 20th.
Eighty-six students from five Washington state
colleges and universities along with Camosun College
participated. Attendees competed in sixteen
different events.
Taking home the
first place award for the
Entrepreneurship Event, was the team of
Patrick Antonio, Ben Gerbrecht, and Peter Paine.
The Entrepreneurship Event requires participants to
prepare a written business plan and then orally
present the plan to a panel of judges. Patrick, Ben
and Peter took a modified version of their IBC
project and blew away the competition!
Our outstanding
performance was not limited to the Entrepreneurship
Event. In the Restaurant and Food Service
Management event, Peter Tikk and Charlene
Caldwell captured the second and third place medals
respectively. Winning second and third place
respectively in the Retail Management event
were Mitchell Woolley and Anisha Lagah. Heather
Lane was runner up in the Human Resource
Management event. The Restaurant and Retail
Management events are business simulation events
which required the completion of a multiple choice
exam and role playing situational analysis. The
Human Resource event is a case study event.
DEC is planning on
traveling to Anaheim California to compete at the
International Career Development Conference April 22
to 25. We are currently recruiting competitors for
this event. For more information contact DEC at
corrigan@camosun.bc.ca .
On Monday, February 2, the
Medical Office
Assistant students attended the 3rd annual professional development
workshop sponsored by the
School of Business and organized by LeaAnne Webster, Angela Ndakwe and
Monique Tatum. The workshop was held in the conference room at the
Vancouver Island Technology Park.
This unique professional development
workshop provides students the opportunity to hear industry related
professionals, participate in hands-on activities, exchange
information and ideas in addition to enjoying fun activities, and
delicious food in a professional setting.
The day began with the presentation “Stories the
Bones Can Tell You”, by Brenda Clark, anthropology instructor,
Camosun College, followed by the Lady Mae scrubs fashion show, and
wrapped up with a presentation by Shelly McNeil from PITO (Physician
Information Technology Office) on what is PITO and how can the MOAs of
today make a difference in the health care industry.
Camosun College’s Certificate in Medical office
Assistant program is a full-time eight-month long
program that prepares students for the
administrative and clinical duties of an office
assistant in a medical or healthcare office.
Camosun College is looking for your innovative
ideas to help the college become a leader in
sustainability.
You could win a $1,000 cash prize and a
$1,500 operational budget to help make your idea a
reality.
Your idea could be anything, as long as it has a
positive impact on sustainability at Camosun
College. Project submissions are due by 4 pm, March
2, 2009.
Applicants must be registered Camosun students in
March, 2009.
Once again, the IBC Final
Showcase provided eight outstanding
presentations of well thought-out business ideas in
the Tourism Industry. Hosted by MC Mahesh Kumar,
the event was perhaps the most energetic and lively,
ever!
Congratulations to Club Connection,
our IBC Showcase winners for 2008!! We also
would like to congratulate our Schwarzie Award
(People's Choice)
winners, Allure
Networking. All the students worked
extremely hard and produced outstanding,
professional and entertaining presentations. Well
done everyone!
Richard Olesen, Dean of the
School of Business thanked both the Victoria
chapter and the provincial CGA body who worked
together to create a $40,000 endowment. A further
$10,000, raised by the local chapter this year, was
donated at the December 4 room dedication. Sandra
Bitz, Foundation development officer notes that the
endowment supports Camosun accounting students with
scholarship and bursaries. “The vision and
dedication of industry
The Golf Management students raised
$1081.40
for the Camosun College Foundation Golf
Management Bursary at the annual PGM
Bursary Golf tournament held Nov.21 at
Olympic View Golf Club.
This bursary is awarded annually to a
student in Camosun's golf program.
The Dean's Honour Roll recognizes the outstanding academic achievement of
students enrolled in full-time Camosun College programs. The School of
Business would like to congratulate the following students who achieved a
term GPA of 8.0 or higher (12 credits or more completed ).
Congratulations
to all the School of Business students who have earned their placement on
the Dean's Honour Roll for Winter & Quarter 2 2008!
Camosun
received the visit of 33 grade 5 students from Vic
West elementary, our future “Class of 2018”.
Larry Chung, Program Leader for 1st year Business
Administration and Julie St-Pierre, Co-op Marketing
Assistant organized the campus visit for the
students. 
At the annual
BC HRMA conference held in Victoria last week and wanted to tell
you that the Rising Star Award was given to our very own
Meg Burrows, a recent graduate of the Advanced HRM program!!! 
The
Camosun Chapter of Delta Epsilon Chi (DEC) competed
in the 48th annual
Wednesday,
May 27, 2009 @ 6:00pm 
Awards
presentation followed a short break after the 6th
quarter as the University of Tennessee support team
tallied the results. The winning team was from
Parkland Secondary, taught by Mr. Roger Pires. In
second place, was the team from Spectrum taught by
Mr. Chuck Groot. The biggest turn around was by the
team from Belmont High, taught by Ms. Sarah Leswal.
with
David Hahn, CEO BC Ferries, Lindsay Hall,
CFO Gold Corp Inc., Steven Dagg, CEO
Copeland Communications 
Camosun
Golf Students hold "Tee It 2 Beat It"
For
Students by Students
Camosun
College's Tourism Management students made a
great impression at the recent
Student Case Competition
at the Tourism Industry Conference in
Vancouver. Students were tasked with determining if
a Destination Marketing Organization should be
marketing focused or management focused. Our team
presented a convincing rationale for a management
focus - a progressive position that they were
passionate about!
On
February 17 and 18, the Legal Office Assistant
students and faculty traveled to Vancouver for the
5th annual trip to the Vancouver Law Courts. This
trip is sponsored by the School of Business and is
organized by Patricia Gaudreault and Monique Tatum.
Business
students brought home the bling after competing in
the 43rd annual Washington State Career Development
Conference, February 18th through the 20th.
Eighty-six students from five Washington state
colleges and universities along with Camosun College
participated. Attendees competed in sixteen
different events.
On Monday, February 2, the
Medical Office
Assistant students attended the 3rd annual professional development
workshop sponsored by the
School of Business and organized by LeaAnne Webster, Angela Ndakwe and
Monique Tatum. The workshop was held in the conference room at the
Vancouver Island Technology Park.
The day began with the presentation “Stories the
Bones Can Tell You”, by Brenda Clark, anthropology instructor,
Camosun College, followed by the Lady Mae scrubs fashion show, and
wrapped up with a presentation by Shelly McNeil from PITO (Physician
Information Technology Office) on what is PITO and how can the MOAs of
today make a difference in the health care industry.
Got a green idea?
