Did you know?

Champlain Regional College has developed a career site application that gives student access to job postings anytime and anywhere. Students can submit applications to the college, and external candidates can also apply for positions. The app can even send customized job postings to candidates after they have identified their employment preferences and their skill sets.

This week was a busy one for CICan, and for our CIIP program! Indeed, CIIP hosted a consultative conference on February 11^th and then CICan jumped right into our Colleges and Institutes Supporting the Integration of Immigrants Symposium. Both events went swimmingly, and the CICan staff did a fantastic job.I also had the chance to connect with five experts from the Netherlands’ Ministry of Education. They were in Ottawa to meet with Canadian counterparts and potential partners to discuss matchmaking between Dutch and Canadian institutes as well as research cooperation.We also discussed an upcoming visit from the Netherlands’ Minister of Education who will travel to Canada with representatives from 20 Dutch universities and colleges. I am truly excited for these education representatives to see what Canada’s colleges and institutes have to offer! These meetings were quite promising, and it’s always interesting to hear international education perspectives.The other big event of the week was the CICan Board meeting. This was a great opportunity to go over our achievements of the past few months and discuss future endeavours. As always, it was great to receive feedback from our board members.

Congratulations!

Louis Gendron has been named the Director of Collège de l’Assomption. Mr. Gendron has worked in the education sector for over 25 years. He was previously the director of continuing education and business services at Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe. He will begin his term on March 16^.