Need-To-Know News

Whatever irritation may have existed in the student mindset as a result of the province-wide college faculty strike in the fall of 2017 has apparently disappeared now. St. Clair’s assorted Key Performance Indicator (KPI) “Student Satisfaction”…

Among the topics of discussion and administration-authored reports during the September 24th meeting of the college’s Board of Governors (BofG) were these: • The college’s new Sports Park will add its softball diamond much sooner than expected. It…

Editor’s Note: Statistics Canada recently released an interesting report, detailing the experience of international students – and graduates – in Canada between 2009 and 2015. For colleges, especially, this period represented the beginning of a…

St. Clair students, apparently, beg to differ with the Conservative provincial government’s suggestion that many of the services and programs provided by campus governments were “non-essential”. Early this year, the government introduced the…

In a post on its Facebook page on September 16, the Student Representative Council (SRC) noted that the federal election campaign was getting underway in a high-profile manner with a visit to Windsor by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was slated…

Contributed by Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) With federal Budget consultations underway, Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) has issued seven recommendations aimed at supporting economic growth, competitiveness and the fight against…

International education has been a big – and financially beneficial – topic at St. Clair for the last half-decade, as the school’s enrolment has skyrocketed as thousands of global scholars have found their way to the college during that period. On…

NEWS & ANALYSIS The administrations of colleges and universities throughout Ontario are anxiously awaiting details of the “nuts and bolts” of the Conservative provincial government’s intentions to tie their operating grants to “measurements of…

Editor’s Note: Almost every program at St. Clair attempts to provide some sort of “real world”, practical experience in its curriculum – either in the form of the clinical placements for Health Sciences and Nursing students which actually play a…

Contributed by WEtech Alliance The digital economy is ripe for bold initiatives that connect talent with tech companies. Given the Windsor-Essex region’s proximity to the U.S. border, it’s clear that this area has unique opportunities and…