Posted on Friday, April 13th, 2018
Algonquin College taught Katrina Lewis to be an esthetician – and a feminist.
The former was the result of classes on skin care and body treatments in the College’s Esthetician diploma program, from which Lewis graduated in 2001. The latter was an unexpected consequence of the two-year Business Management and Entrepreneurship program Lewis completed last year.
Posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2018
When Algonquin’s Outdoor Adventure diploma program was brand new, students like Ben Shillington would spend up to seven days a week in kayaks or canoes, on skis or trail bikes, in snow and on mountains, in rain and on rivers. However, it wasn’t this rigorous adventure training that would make Shillington “the world’s most extreme expedition guide,” as men’s lifestyle magazine Sharp recently dubbed him. It was everything else he learned at Algonquin, he says. Read more >
Posted on Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
The DARE District will not only change the face of campus, it will change the face of student services at Algonquin College.
While May 3 marks the new building’s grand opening, construction will continue on lower-level Student One Stop Space until the end of July. Services in the area will include the Registrar’s Office, a Test Centre, the PLAR and Pathways Office, the Centre for Academic Success, and the International Education Centre. Some services will begin moving in Aug. 1.
“This new service space is going to be open, bright, modern, and state-of-the-art,” says Todd Schonewille, Director of Physical Resources. “We have completely demolished the original space and will be rebuilding it entirely from scratch. Coordination of this project with the DARE District in the floors above has allowed us to make significant improvements to this space that would not have been possible otherwise. Most notable perhaps is increased final ceiling heights as well as the addition of windows to the exterior. Also, the design will be aligned with that of the DARE District, both in the aesthetics as atmosphere – as well as in the use of environmentally sustainable design and building materials.”