Fleming College’s School of Business, Computing and Hospitality is pleased to announce the student recipients of the 2011 Showcase Awards, sponsored by Bell as part of the Community Innovation Forum. • Bell Project “Best of Showcase” Award Adventures in Tourism – Kathryn Burns, Angela McDonald, Brittany Scott, sponsored by BEL Rotary ($500 team prize) • Bell Technology… Continue reading Community Innovation Forum: Showcase Awards
Research in Costa Rica: Global Experience Promotes Local Excellence
By Joshua V. Feltham, Professor, Ecosystem Management program Six students and two professors from Fleming College travelled to Costa Rica in 2009. They spent two weeks working and learning in the Atlantic lowland tropical rainforest. Challenged by the climate, topography, flora and fauna, each one of them embraced adversity while contributing to valuable research on marine… Continue reading Research in Costa Rica: Global Experience Promotes Local Excellence
Fleming College’s trained Canada Revenue Agency Volunteer Tax Preparers are helping individuals complete tax returns for free. Students in the Accounting program at the college will complete and e-file personal tax returns on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tax clinics will be set up in the main foyer of the… Continue reading Accounting students providing free tax clinics
Northumberland Road Builders donation creates new bursary
The Northumberland Road Builders Association (NRBA) presented the Fleming College Foundation with a welcome gift at the Cobourg Campus on Monday, Mar. 14. The NRBA donated $30,000 toward the establishment of a bursary award. The generous donation will be endowed and matched by the provincial government through the Ontario Trust for Student Support program. The… Continue reading Northumberland Road Builders donation creates new bursary
Community partners join to present innovation forum
Community organizations are partnering to present the first Community Innovation Forum: Knowledge in Action at the Peterborough Golf & County Club. On Mar. 24 the Greater Peterborough Innovation Cluster, the Trent Centre for Community-Based Education and Fleming College’s School of Business, Computing and Hospitality will be joining forces with Bell Canada and a number of community… Continue reading Community partners join to present innovation forum
Fleming College’s Ecosystem Management Technology Program proudly presents the 4th annual EcoHealth Conference. This year’s theme is “Healthy Food, Healthy People, Healthy Planet.” Third Year Ecosystem Management Technology students at Fleming College are culminating their semester by hosting an eco-conference at the Frost Campus in Lindsay on Tuesday, Apr. 12. The aim of this event… Continue reading 4th annual EcoHealth Conference
Fleming College celebrated the completion of extensive upgrades to its Sutherland Campus with a Renovation Celebration on Feb. 11. “We wanted to welcome the community and share our new look, as well as acknowledge the generosity of the provincial government in funding these capital projects,” said Fleming College President Tony Tilly. “We offer thanks for… Continue reading Renovation Celebration at Fleming College
Social media represents a transformational shift in how we communicate and connect in today’s world. Uncovering the power and potential to engage consumers in new ways through social media is the focus of an upcoming one-day conference at Fleming College’s Cobourg Campus. Connections; a social media conference will provide a full day of expert-led sessions… Continue reading Social media conference at the Cobourg Campus
Are you interested in the future and direction of long term care in our community? You are invited to participate in a one-day forum, Innovations in Aging Well, on Monday, Apr. 4 at St. Joseph’s at Fleming, Brealey Drive in Peterborough. The forum will focus on exploring best practices in building community and will offer… Continue reading Community Forum: Innovations in Aging Well
It may be Lindsay’s best-kept secret: renowned Canadian naturalist and artist Ernest Thompson Seton spent a formative part of his childhood in Lindsay in the 1860s.