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A woman looks at a tablet while sitting at a table

Help with job searches and events to de-stress 🧠

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MyVIU student newsletter: February 5, 2025
Graphic illustration: the text reads Black History Month 2025 with a Black woman looking skyward and a Black Man raising his fist to the sky.

Black History Month at VIU

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Film screening, open mic, book club and more planned throughout the month

Nadia Linning standing in the woods and smiling at the camera

An award-winning work co-op with the BC Wildfire Service

By Eric Zimmer
VIU Tourism Management student Nadia Linning shares her experience
Aerial view of VIU's Nanaimo campus

What you need to know about VIU’s Accessibility Services

By Samantha Allan
Your top questions answered
Head and shoulders of Sarah with a painting of ships behind her

Meet the next generation of people for salmon at VIU

By Reprinted with permission from the Pacific Salmon Foundation blog
Sarah McKeller and Joe Clark share their stories
Sarah Hart and Sevilya Hendricks performing a song together at the Chinese Bridge Singing contest at UBC

VIU students win province-wide Chinese language contest

By Eric Zimmer
It’s the first time VIU students have done so at the event.
A student in a classroom watching an instructor fill a prescription bottle

New partnership brings pharmacy technician training to VIU

By Eric Zimmer
Access training for this high-demand field on the Island
Woman stares at a laptop screen, head in her hands

How we’ve learned to conquer stress

By Samantha Allan
Two student leaders share their strategies
man and woman smiling while sitting across from one another at a table by a window. textbooks are on the desk in front of them

Become a volunteer tutor at Vancouver Island University

By Eric Zimmer
Tutors are needed at both the Nanaimo and Cowichan campuses.
VIU's three totems outside Shq'apthut on the Nanaimo campus

VIU Light Up, exam support and holiday fun 🌲⛄

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VIU Student Pulse News: December 7, 2022
Room for rent sign in a door

Keeping your room while away - and saving the rent

By Michael Witcomb, Off-Campus Housing Coordinator
A guide to subletting and assigning your housing