A group of students in the Centennial College Corporate Communications and Public Relations class of 2012 is hosting an inaugural fundraising event for local charity, the Children’s Book Bank. The MC for the evening will be Ontario Library Association’s book award nominated children’s and young adults’ author Robert Paul Weston.
Every day children go hungry, and Blessings in a Backpack wants to change that. By keeping children fed over the weekends, Blessings in a Backpack helps kids to return to school on Monday alert and ready to learn.
Do you remember the feeling when you received your first bike as a child? Most of us do: the excitement, the curiousness and the many thoughts of adventure. Unfortunately, not every child gets to feel this way. This is why Centennial College Corporate Communications and Public Relations students are hosting a live auction event called A Bid for a Bike.
Do you have an interest in social media? What about public relations and sports? Then Centennial College’s fourth annual social media unconference, Talk Is Cheap 4.0, is an event you need to attend.
Are you feeling jolly? It’s time to sift through your closets, call up your Aunt Muriel or visit a nearby Value Village because on Monday, Dec. 5, Centennial College’s emPoweR team is putting on the holiday party of the century: The Ugly Holiday Sweater Party.
As an international student studying Corporate Communications & Public Relations, I came into the program with the mindset that I needed to get experience and lots of it in the Canadian PR industry. So when I received an email from program coordinator Barry Waite about volunteering in media relations with Free the Children, I jumped on the opportunity.
Centennial College president, Ann Buller, visited the Centre for Creative Communications on October 13, 2011. She came to talk about leadership and communications. Her audience, Corporate Communication and Public Relations students, received her message warmly, and engaged her in a vigorous question and answer period afterward.
The Fall semester is well underway at Centennial’s Centre for Creative Communications. A record 52 students started the post-graduate Corporate Communications & Public Relations program this September — the most number of students ever.
We’re thrilled to announce that Oluwadamilola (Lola) Okunlola, an International Student in the Corporate Communications & Public Relations program at Centennial College has been named “Student of the Year” by the Toronto chapter of the Canadian Public Relations Society.
Student life is almost over. I’m not sure what to think, feel or do. What is real life, if not filled with textbooks, essays, essays and essays? When I finished my English BA at Queen’s University, I didn’t take the time to reflect on a job well done. I wrote my last exam, packed up my apartment and left without looking back. I’d enjoyed it and I’d been successful.
