St. Clair College Explained

St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology
Motto:Start Here. Go Anywhere.
Type:Public college of applied arts and technology
Affiliation:CICan, Colleges Ontario, Canadian Bureau for International Education
Chair:Jean Piccinato [1]
President:Patricia France
Vice-President:Waseem Habash (VP for Academic)
Students:6,933 FTEs (2020)[2]
Address:2000 Talbot Road West (main campus)
City:Windsor Campus
Country:Canada
Campus:Suburban
Colours: Black, gold, green
Sports Nickname:Saints
Sporting Affiliations:CCAA, OCAA

St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology is a college in the Southwestern Ontario counties of Essex and Chatham-Kent, partnered with private Ace Acumen Academy in Toronto. [3] [4]

Campus

Its main administration and largest campus sites are in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. In addition, other campuses are located in Chatham and Wallaceburg.[5] In 2007, St. Clair College expanded to downtown Windsor by purchasing the former City of Windsor owned Cleary International Centre, renaming it St. Clair College Centre for the Arts.[6] In 2009, St. Clair College bought the former City of Windsor owned Salvation Army building in downtown Windsor for $1. With a $5 million grant from the federal government, the building was turned into a state of the art journalism school; the first of its kind in Canada. In 2014, St. Clair College built a new sports complex at the main campus, called the SportsPlex.

History

The college has its roots in the Western Ontario Institute of Technology, founded in 1958 to supplement the then-Ryerson Institute in Toronto, now Toronto Metropolitan University. With the advent of the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, St. Clair was founded in 1966; the two institutions were merged a year later. Growth of the college has generally paralleled that of Windsor. Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology were established on May 21, 1965. It is an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology. The school was founded in 1966 as part of a provincial initiative to create many such institutions to provide career-oriented diploma and certificate courses, as well as continuing education programs to Ontario communities.[7]

In 2021-22 St. Clair College's student headcount of international students exceeded domestic students.[8] The unprecedented growth in international student enrolment has not been met with a corresponding increase in student housing at St. Clair College.[9]

Campuses

Windsor, Ontario

Chatham-Kent, Ontario

Toronto, Ontario

Student government

The college has of student regulated governments that handle much of the student related activities at the college. They are the Student Representative Council (SRC), the Student Athletic Association (SAA), and the Thames Students Inc. (TSI).

Scholarships and bursaries

St. Clair College scholarships for Aboriginal, First Nations and Métis students include: Métis Nation of Ontario, St. Clair College Bursary.[10]

2017 strike

On Monday, October 16, 2017, the team bargaining on behalf of the province's 24 Colleges and the OPSEU union representing 12,000 full-time faculty, partial load faculty, counsellors and librarians, could not reach an agreement, and all faculty entered a work stoppage.[11] On November 21, the strike was lifted and classes were resumed, however, many initial issues were not resolved.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: St. Clair College Board of Governors . St. Clair College . 14 September 2023.
  2. Web site: Ontario College FTEs . Ontario Colleges Library Service . 6 July 2022.
  3. News: Province Green Lights More Public Private Partnerships for Colleges . 14 September 2023 . St Clair College . 14 November 2019.
  4. Web site: Stacey . Viggo . 2024-01-23 . Next steps for Ontario public-private partners . 2024-06-14 . The PIE News . en-GB.
  5. Web site: Campus Profiles . St. Clair College . November 20, 2023.
  6. Web site: 2000's: St. Clair Makes its way Downtown . St. Clair College . March 23, 2019.
  7. Web site: History. St. Clair College. https://web.archive.org/web/20041209021830/http://www.stclaircollege.ca/about/history.html. December 9, 2004.
  8. Web site: College enrolment - Dataset -Ontario Data Catalogue . Government of Ontario . 13 September 2023.
  9. News: Friesen . Joe . Ontario colleges are fuelling unprecedented growth in international students . 14 September 2023 . The Globe and Mail . 2 Sep 2023.
  10. Web site: Indigenous Bursaries Search Tool. 25 October 2012. Sac-isc.gc.ca. 7 May 2021.
  11. Web site: Info About Potential Faculty Work Stoppage St. Clair College. stclaircollege.ca. en. 2017-10-16.