Need-To-Know News

What does St. Clair mean to – and for – the community, above-and-beyond the delivery of postsecondary education? The college set out to answer that question five years ago – and has updated the analysis annually since – with the assistance of a…

Just a few weeks ago, St. Clair signed a deal with Michigan’s Wayne State University, to allow graduates of the college’s Automotive Product Design program to have their Canadian educations qualify them for “advanced standing” admission into the…

Yikes. The college’s “actual” operational expenditures are going to be eight percent higher than originally predicted when its 2023-24 budget was created this March. Not to worry. That “overage” is more than offset by the fact that its operational…

News and Analysis If its primary recommendations are enacted, it might be one of the best things – financially – ever to happen to Ontario’s postsecondary education system. Failing that, it may just be the latest in many reviews which were tabled…

The college’s Corporate and Professional Training Division – in which the school is contracted as an educational tool by private businesses and industries – is rebounding in both activity and revenue-generation from the “pandemic years”.  An…

During its October 24th meeting, the college’s Board of Governors received a lengthy report from the school’s administration about St. Clair’s past year of “community engagement, brand identification and marketing-and-recruitment” efforts:  St.…

The college is set to end its fiscal year with a surplus considerably larger than the $38 million windfall which had been predicted when its 2023-24 budget was set in March.  (Like the provincial government, the college operates on a fiscal year…

It may not be able create the widespread romantic atmosphere needed to substantially increase the local birth-rate, but St. Clair is doing all that it can to boost the enrolment of domestic students in order to preserve its base provincial grant…

An almost-quarter-century-long veteran employee of the college will become St. Clair’s seventh President next June, with the school’s Board of Governors announcing on September 26th that current Vice-President Academic/Registrar Michael Silvaggi…

St. Clair didn’t just see its student-population climb at the outset of the 2023-24 academic year. It saw it soar into the enrolment stratosphere. During the September 26th meeting of the college’s Board of Governors, President Patti France and…