When Jeff McCoy decided to get out of a job he didn’t like, and into the trades, he chose Algonquin for his training mainly because it was convenient.
Now having completed one trade program at the College and nearing completion on a second, McCoy believes he couldn’t have chosen better even if his education options had been far wider.
He is impressed by the flexibility of the instructors in his courses who readily adapt to different learning styles. “With the trades, one person is not always going to learn in the same way as the next person,” says McCoy. “I find (the Algonquin instructors) are really good in accommodating.” Read more >
Algonquin College will join this week with other organizations, local and national, to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day.
On Thursday, June 21, the Mamidosewin Centre will host a storytelling event in the DARE District’s Indigenous Commons that highlights Indigenous traditions tied to the arrival of summer. It is open to the entire College community.
Entitled “Honouring the Heart-Shaped Berry,” the noon to 2 p.m. event will offer stories that relate the importance of harvesting strawberries as a symbol of new life as well as their value as a medicine for healing and reconciliation. Guests will enjoy strawberry drinks and desserts as they listen. Read more >
It’s a tired cliché: a little girl grows up dreaming of a career in animal care because, well, dogs are loveable and cats cuddly. That stereotype needs to meet Christine Archer.
“I am an unabashed reptile nerd and fish nerd. I love non-mammals in general and will talk about them at length,” says Archer, who graduated from Algonquin’s Veterinary Technician Program in 2009.
It’s not that Archer doesn’t love cute, furry mammals — she counts three rescue cat among her beloved “critters” — but her respect for animals is so much broader. It is founded as much on a keen interest in science as on natural empathy. Read more >
