Collaboration & Partnerships
Culinary Arts students help take a bite out of food insecurity, one apple at a time
November 24, 2020
As the Okanagan days start to get shorter and orchardists wrap up their harvest for the year, Culinary Arts students at the Collegeās Kelowna campus are busy transforming apples into healthy snacks for the community. Earlier in the fall semester, the Okanagan Fruit Tree Project (OFTP) approached the Collegeās Culinary Arts team with an idea: could culinary classes somehow help process apple donations into snacks, going into backpacks for local students in need? The answer was a resounding yes. With some creative thought on how to...
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College launches Applied Bachelor of Arts degree
November 23, 2020
New four-year degree focuses on community research and evaluation Who will be the future change-makers in our communities? Who will help organizations tackle the most pressing social issues we are faced with as a society? The answer might just be the graduates of a new program unlike any before it in the region. °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć has received provincial approval for its first new degree program in more than 15 years ā and its focus couldnāt be timelier. The Applied Bachelor of Arts: Community Research and Evaluation is a four-year...
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°ĶĄč·čĀķŠćFoundation and Jane Hoffman Realty present Seasonās Eatings, a virtual cooking class fundraiser
November 17, 2020
On Dec. 3, fire up your oven and your laptop to join a festive, virtual cooking class and wine tasting fundraiser. The °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć Foundation and Coldwell Banker Jane Hoffman Realty are presenting °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćCooks: Seasonās Eatings, with ticket sales benefitting the Our Students, Your Health campaign to complete a new Health Sciences Centre on the Collegeās Kelowna campus. āSeasonās Eatings is an opportunity to come together virtually, enjoy good wine and cook alongside the Collegeās award-winning chefs,ā says °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć Founda...
Read more...RBC, local experts offer up virtual financial advice for students
November 6, 2020
°ĶĄč·čĀķŠć trades students will have a unique opportunity later this month to ask questions of local experts and learn how they can build a strong financial foundation. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is hosting Business Planning for Trades, a virtual panel discussion geared toward students currently training for a career in the trades at the College. Panelists include: Jason Williamson, Commercial Account Manager with RBC (previously a small business account manager and has worked with clients through all stages of their bus...
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New app aims to enhance communication between health professionals and patients
October 27, 2020
An applied research project by °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć with Monashee Health Collective is focused on developing an innovative new tool that will help allied health professionals connect with patients in real-time ā and support them on their path to wellness. Funded by a grant from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the researcher and students are working to develop, test and launch a prototype holistic wellness app over the next six months. Monashee Health Collective (MHC) provides chiropractic, physiotherapy...
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Visiting scholar discusses polarization over energy and climate in Canada: How bad is it? Whatās to be done?
October 9, 2020
How can Canada chart a positive path for its energy and climate future amid polarization, partisanship and regional differences? Dr. Monica Gattinger, Director of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Full Professor at the School of Political Studies and Founder/Chair of Positive Energy at the University of Ottawa, will be delivering an online keynote delving into this topic on Friday, October 16 at 1 p.m. PST. Gattingerās talk is presented by °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćās Department of Political Science, in conjunction with the BC ...
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Co-op Q&A with Salmon Arm Economic Development Societyās Lana Fitt
October 5, 2020
Meet Lana Fitt, the Salmon Arm Economic Development Societyās Economic Development Manager. In partnership with the Collegeās Salmon Arm campus, SAEDS hired three °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćstudents over the summer of 2020, aiding a new initiative called the Digital Transitions Program. °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć sat down with Fitt to hear her perspective as Manager and having students take part in Co-op education with SAEDS as well as the launch of the Digital Transitions Program in Salmon Arm.. Okanagan...
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New work-integrated learning opportunities for °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćstudents and employers across the region
October 5, 2020
Earlier this year, °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć announced new opportunities through the Student, Graduate and Co-op Employment office for Indigenous learners and students who face accessibility challenges. With funding from the provincial government, the College is set to launch a third project to increase access to co-op and work-integrated learning for °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćstudents and employers. Overseeing the project at °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćis Alison Beaumont, a Coordinator in the Student, Graduate and Co-op Employment office. She notes that the new project has dual opportun...
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Harvesting help needed: Enactus °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćstudents invite community to join them in picking apples for a good cause
September 30, 2020
A group of °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć business students are putting the call out for volunteers from °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćand the community to help them harvest fruit that will be used to make healthy snacks for children and others in need. Started in the fall of 2018, FruitSnaps is a Vernon- and Penticton-based project, which sees Enactus °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćstudents partnering with the North Okanagan Valley Gleaners Society facility, where unused apples from local orchards are dehydrated into snacks for local schools. The FruitSnaps team will be hosting small, physically-d...
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North Okanagan Talent Hackathon Looks for Out-of-the-box Thinkers
September 25, 2020
°ĶĄč·čĀķŠćstudents, employees and alumni: check out this opportunity to collaborate, demonstrate your skills and connect with other business and technology minds in the community as part of the North Okanagan Hackathon. °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć is a sponsor of this event and encourages °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćstudents to take advantage of this unique virtual networking opportunity! The following media release is shared on behalf of Accelerate Okanagan: On October 29th, 2020, the Accelerate Okanagan team will be hosting the first North Okanagan Hackathon virtually fr...
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New °ĶĄč·čĀķŠćbusiness program creates more real-world learning for budding entrepreneurs
September 24, 2020
°ĶĄč·čĀķŠćās School of Business is launching a new program that will teach entrepreneurship and business in a way most business owners would say is key to learning ā by doing. The Experiential Entrepreneurship program will offer an entrepreneurship specialty to the Collegeās Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Modelled after a long-running and highly successful program at the Collegeās partner school in Finland, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, the Experiential Entrepreneurship program will see business students ...
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°ĶĄč·čĀķŠć joins Mohawk and other institutions across Canada to form Canadian Colleges for a Resilient Recovery
September 24, 2020
Eight colleges, institutions, CEGEPs to support new climate-resistant economy °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć is joining forces with a group of colleges, institutions, polytechnics and CEGEPs from across Canada to educate a post-pandemic workforce to support a new climate-focused economic recovery. The group of eight climate-action leading institutions from all regions of the country have launched an initiative called Canadian Colleges for a Resilient Recovery. The group will champion projects across Canada to support a recovery that delivers go...
Read more...Health Care Assistants thankful for bursary support
September 14, 2020
Twenty-three-year-old Shoshanna Fremont works the night shift as a Care Aide at a local long-term care home, a shift she loves as it gives her an opportunity to provide precious one-on-one time with residents who are up during the night. āWhen you get them a glass of water and take the time to hold their hand, especially when they canāt have many visitors, their entire mood changes,ā says Fremont. āWhen I go home I take comfort that I took care of people today, I made them smile, or helped in whatever way I could.ā Fremont is o...
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Hospitality training in Okanagan leads to tourism jobs
September 14, 2020
Published on behalf of the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction. See original release here. Up to 40 eligible British Columbians will be able to tap into a unique online training program at °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć and gain work experience to prepare them for jobs in the hospitality industry, thanks to more than $611,000 in funding from the provincial government. āThe tourism sector is resilient. Weāre seeing evidence of that in the Okanagan and Shuswap as businesses begin to reopen,ā said Shane Simpson, Minister of S...
Read more...Advisors from across BC post-secondary institutions unite to engage and support Indigenous students
September 10, 2020
Strengthening Connections, an Indigenous recruitment initiative for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, will have a whole new look and feel this fall. As post-secondary institutions across the province have geared up for remote or alternative delivery for fall semester, recruiters have also made the switch to a virtual world, notes Jewell Gillies, who currently serves as Executive Board Chair for Strengthening Connections and works in Indigenous Services and Student, Grad and Co-op Employment at °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć. āStr...
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Major Rotary gift supports nursing education
August 10, 2020
A $100,000 gift from the Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation Reichwald Fund will support the education of Registered Nurses (RNs) at Kelownaās major post-secondary institutions. °ĶĄč·čĀķŠć and the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) are each receiving $50,000 to support high-quality skills training and provide financial support for students in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. āWe are thrilled to support our future health care workers in Kelowna and throughout the Valley,ā says Catherine Comben, Rota...
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