Campus Caring Project
The Campus Caring Project is focused on helping students, staff and faculty’s transform our university experience through fresh ways to navigate and find value on campus.
Members of the campus community, and beyond, are invited to post their personal ways to connect, engage and discover fresh ways [ hacks] to navigate, to add more value to their day, and share them on our Instagram account, Campus Caring Project
Here’s an example of how a new student used a simple way to get connected, to navigate in her classes and across campus, and end up developing a wide range of social contacts.
Will Weigler– co-creating amazing community projects from Christopher Bowers on Vimeo.
Giving a hand to someone on campus revealed rich stories, examples of making a career of sharing stories and connections.
Steps to Progress
The years slip quietly,
like pages turned without notice.
In 1990, I arrived here,
a soul caught between two worlds,
and found sanctuary in learning.
Now I return—
older, yet more awake,
carrying a flame that never died,
seeking wisdom not only in books
but in breath, in stories,
in the quiet stillness after chaos.
Progress is not ahead or behind—
it is here,
in this moment,
where knowledge kindles the heart,
and a hidden gem waits
just beyond Ring Road,
where calm and chaos divide.
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Thank you for taking the time to say hello and for sharing the Campus Caring Project and its steps to progress. At times, I find myself reflecting on where the years have gone since 1990, when UVic became my escape from the experience of living between two cultures.
Returning now, after completing a BSc and a Master’s, I seek once again what this institution has always offered me—a sense of community and a space for discovery. My own steps to progress have unfolded through self-discovery, guiding me to serve others. Whether through yoga on the mat at the Multifaith Centre or listening to students’ stories, especially the younger ones—their voices “quack” differently than in the 90s, yet with the same yearning for belonging.
So much has changed, and yet much remains the same. The difference is my own awareness. I am learning what it means to truly understand the syllabus—and how progress, in its truest sense, is found not in the past or future, but here and now.
For me, that progress is the inner flame of learning—knowledge kindled by authors, professors, and peers. In walking this campus again, I even discovered a hidden gem on the other side of Ring Road, where the chaos gives way to calm.
With gratitude,
Rosy