The Camosun College Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning has been renamed in recognition of one of the school’s founding leaders, who was an early supporter of community colleges.
The centre, which provides services out of the libraries at both the Lansdowne and Interurban campuses, is now known as the Dr. Lloyd Morin Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. It supports faculty in teaching methods and development of curriculum, instructional materials and the use of technology.
Morin became Camosun’s second president in 1978, taking over from Grant Fisher. He is the lone surviving member of the school’s first administration council.
“Those were exhausting days as we prepared for students, and speaking to service clubs and others in Victoria who wanted to know more about this institution, hiring new faculty and developing policies,” Morin said. “The ethos developed by the founding group is still evident at the college and I am deeply honoured by the renaming.”
Current president Lane Trotter said the renaming is “appropriate recognition” for Morin and his legacy.
Patricia Beatty-Guenter, who chairs the Camosun College Association of Retired Employees, said that in 1971 — the year Camosun was established — Morin became the first director of what would become the centre that bears his name.
He had been the principal of a Coquitlam secondary school in the early 1960s, when the college model began to emerge in B.C.
Morin played a role in promoting colleges like Camosun that can adapt to the educational needs of student at all ages and all levels, Beatty-Guenter said.
“Dr. Morin has remained a huge cheerleader for Camosun College and the concept of the community college.”
