Cathy Yantha didn’t enrol at Algonquin until 2000, but she graduated in 1967.
No, really.
Yantha didn’t enrol at Algonquin in the mid-1960s, because it didn’t exist. She was already a student in the Marketing and Advertising program at the Ontario Vocational Centre on Woodroffe Avenue when OVC amalgamated with the Eastern Ontario Institute of Technology in 1967 to create Algonquin, one of more than 20 Ontario colleges launched about the same time. Continue reading
Last week, thousands of graduates from the Ottawa Campus celebrated their achievements at three days of convocation ceremonies, and shared their experiences with us on social media. Here are some of ours (and yours) top highlights from #Algonquin2018 Ottawa Campus Convocation!
Graduates waving flags – loud and proud!
What a wonderful sight to see so many graduates, many of them Indigenous, at tonight’s #Algonquin2018 convocation. Great work and congratulations!! pic.twitter.com/Gm4iMy9gVa
— Ron McLester (@AgentIroquois) June 20, 2018
The post on the Facebook page of a fledgling Ottawa music academy reads like another social media platitude: “A lack of sight does not mean a lack of vision.”
However, when you sit down with local musician Mubarak Farah, founder of the music school Ability Through Music, you soon realize the adage is most appropriate. Born in Somaliland, an autonomous region of Somalia, with glaucoma, and blind since early childhood, Farah is a man with an abundance of vision. Continue reading