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Students Really Dig Their Education
Contributed by Professor Claudia Corro DeThomasis
Recently, the second year Civil Engineering Technology and Construction Engineering Technician students were able to go on-site for some geotechnical testing.
There was a drill rig on campus, and…
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Trump And Jong-un To Attend The St. Clair Summit
“Little Rocket Man” and “The Donald” are headed to St. Clair College this summer to conduct their historic meeting between the governments of North Korea and the United States.
This past Sunday (April 1st), it was announced that the college’s…
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Chatham To China, And An Uplifting Exhibit
Contributed by Mark Benoit
A couple of items about our fellow students at Chatham’s Thames Campus …
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Polar Plunge = Cold Hard Cash
This March's Polar Plunge at St. Clair – the fourth annual one hosted by the college – raised a record $61,000 for the local Law Enforcement Torch Run for the Special Olympics.
Just shy of 200 local citizens – including many St. Clair students and…
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Big Bucks In Board Budget
The continuing influx of international students – which is expected to create a record enrolment of approximately 12,000 students during the next academic year – will lead to unprecedented revenues, and expenditures, for St. Clair.
That is the…
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Today Is Your Chance To Be A Life-saver
Today (March 27), St. Clair’s Student Representative Council (SRC) – in partnership with the Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Association – is staging the college’s annual Swabbing Clinic to seek prospective donors to the national stem-cell/bone-marrow…
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$11.7 Million: Sounds Like A Lot, But It's Not
Analysis and Opinion: Regarding the story/government press release below …
… Among the specific funding announced as part of the new provincial mental health initiative was $11.7 million to be allocated to the postsecondary system over the next…
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"March Money": College Presents Bursaries And Scholarships
The first of two Bursaries and Scholarships Nights was held at the Centre for the Arts on March 19.
By the time the Windsor presentations conclude on March 26 (Chatham students received their awards earlier in the month), the college's fundraising…
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Canada Welcomes The World
By Josie West of the International “Education Thinktank” Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
Canada is replacing the United States and United Kingdom as the most popular study destination in a number of regions, new research in the “QS Applicant Survey 2018…
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CICan A Fan Of Federal Budget
Contributed by Colleges and Institutes Canada
Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) is excited to see new funding in the 2018 federal budget that was unveiled this week, for research and innovation, including for the critically important College…