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Retiring St. Clair President Patti France is now retiring President Emeritus Patti France. The college's Board of Governors presented her with a scroll bestowing that title upon her during her last meeting as the school's head administrator on May…

The college’s budgetary surplus last year (2023-24) was the largest in the school’s history, but not quite as large as the most recent prediction by Chief Financial Officer Marc Jones. During the discussion of the new year’s (2024-25’s) budget in…

The two-years-long “pause” on international student immigration introduced by the federal government will dramatically reduce St. Clair’s revenue, but the school still anticipates that it will operate profitably in the 2024-25 fiscal year, according…

Saint varsity athletes had an astounding winning percentage of 78.2 percent in 2023-24, according to the sports recap presented to the college’s Board of Governors during its meeting on March 26. The school’s 16 intercollegiate teams had a…

The pared-down, provincial-government-compiled Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of “college quality” have been released by Colleges Ontario, and were presented to St. Clair’s Board of Governors during its March 26th meeting. Pre-COVID, the annual…

GRAPHIC ABOVE: A page sample of the Risk Management report, showing the colour-coding and numerical methods of identifying likelihood and impact. The brightest shade of worrisome red, and the highest “number of alarm”, popped up in an obvious spot…

It’s a wonder that St. Clair’s staff and students actually have time left in their lives for education. That would seem to be a fair observation after the college’s Board of Governors reviewed two reports tabled at the February 27th meeting, both…

PICTURE ABOVE: A sample of one of the industrial client R&I projects conducted by the college recently. An increasingly important function of the college – and a “real world” curriculum bonus for students – is the school’s involvement in…

The college’s Board of Governors and administration believes that a beautiful campus is a basic but important marketing-and-recruitment tool. So, the school has, during the past decade, made a point of devoting a healthy amount of cash to both…

As last reported in November, St. Clair remains on-track to record the largest year-end budgetary surplus in its history when its fiscal year ends on March 31. (Like the provincial government, the college operates on a fiscal calendar from April 1…