St. Clair College

Coordinates: 42°14′48.02″N 83°01′07.26″W / 42.2466722°N 83.0186833°W / 42.2466722; -83.0186833

St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology
Motto Start Here. Go Anywhere.
Type Public College of Applied Arts and Technology
Established 1966
Affiliation non-denominational
President Patti France
Academic staff
 Approximately 264
Students full time, part-time and continuing
Undergraduates Available
Location 2000 Talbot Road West
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
N9A 6S4
Campus Suburban
Sports Teams Saints
Colours Black, Gold, Green
              
Mascot Griffin
Affiliations CCAA, OCAA, ACCC, CBIE
Website

St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology is a college in the Southwestern Ontario counties of Essex and Chatham-Kent. It is ranked in the top 5 best colleges to go to in Ontario as of 2014

Campus

Its main administration and largest campus sites are in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. In addition, other campuses are located in Chatham and Wallaceburg. In 2007, St. Clair College expanded to downtown Windsor by purchasing the former City of Windsor owned Cleary International Centre. 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 sportscomplex just behind and on the other side of the street of the residence

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 Ryerson 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 .

St.Clair College celebrates its 50th anniversary in September 2017.

Campuses

Windsor, Ontario

Chatham-Kent, Ontario

Programs

St. Clair College offers more than 100 diploma, certificate, degree and post graduate certificate programs.

Student government

The college has a number 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). The list of members are as follows:

2015-2016 SRC [1]

2015-2016 TSI [2]

2015-2016 SAA [3]

Scholarships and bursaries

The Government of Canada sponsors an Aboriginal Bursaries Search Tool that lists over 680 scholarships, bursaries, and other incentives offered by governments, universities, and industry to support Aboriginal post-secondary participation. St. Clair College scholarships for Aboriginal, First Nations and Métis students include: Métis Nation of Ontario, St. Clair College Bursary.[4]

See also

References

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  4. ↑ Aboriginal Bursaries Search Tool
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