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Free Speech Policy: Tories Demand, Colleges Create, Union Criticizes
NEWS, ANALYSIS AND OPINION
Ontario’s two dozen colleges – St. Clair included – now have a universal “Free Speech On Campus” policy, as dictated by the provincial government … although the union representing faculty members at the schools is less…
Year-end Looking Very Black ... And That's A Good Thing
Halfway through its fiscal year (actually, that occurred at the end of September), the college is now anticipating a year-end (March 31, 2019) budgetary surplus of $10.553 million.
The six-month financial update was presented to St. Clair’s Board…
Dissatisfaction With Satisfaction Surveying
While generally pleased as punch with its 2017-18 Key Performance Indicator (KPI) quality survey results (see http://stclair-src.org/news/need-know-news/st-clair-stays-top-five-grudge-less-kpi-results), St. Clair’s Board of Governors (BofG) and…
Constructive New Programs Approved By BofG
The college will launch two new programs in September, 2019: one to teach students how to construct websites; and the other to teach them to construct, well, construction.
The programs were introduced to, and approved by, St. Clair’s Board of…
Partnerships Are Out Of The Mothballs
President Patti France’s “Christmas present” to the college’s Board of Govenors (BofG) … The revelation that the college will not, during the next couple of years, be losing $7 million-plus.
Or, depending upon how you look at the situation, maybe…
StatsCan Report Emphasizes Enrolment Boost Provided By International Students
Some interest data – providing a “snapshot” of postsecondary education demographics in Canada at this moment in time – was recently published by Statistics Canada:
Enrolments in Canadian public colleges and universities totalled 2,048,574 in 2016-…
SCC's PFers At RCMP's PARE
Contributed by Scott Braun, Coordinator, Police Foundations and Protection, Security and Investigation Programs at Chatham Campus
On November 13, a group of students from our Police Foundations program travelled to Mohawk College in Hamilton to…
Good Students, Goodfellows, Great Results
This year’s St. Clair involvement with the local Goodfellows’ newspaper sale saw the college raise the most cash in its history for the Christmas food-parcel charity.
Student-members of the Protection, Security and Investigation/Police Foundations…
Marvellous Marketers
Contributed by Professor Nicole Rourke
Extremely proud to announce the following results for St. Clair at the Ontario Colleges Marketing Competition, held recently at Fanshawe College:
Gold: Marketing Research: Aurora Fowler and Steven Haas (Coach…
St. Clair Stays In Top Five In "Grudge-less" KPI Results
They were extremely inconvenienced and irritated, but 2017-18 Ontario college students apparently didn’t “hold a grudge” following the five-weeks-long faculty strike last autumn.
College officials throughout Ontario thought results of the annual,…
