What is the Centre for Experiential Learning?
The Centre for Experiential Learning (CEL) and Student Engagement at Vancouver Island University is a comprehensive hub supporting students, faculty and employers through a range of services that enhance work-integrated learning (WIL), career readiness, student engagement and success.
Our team provides essential resources for pre-employment preparation, career transition, and employer partnerships while maintaining critical administrative operations like record-keeping and reporting.
CEL serves as a bridge between academic learning and real-world experiences, fostering meaningful connections and ensuring students are prepared for life beyond graduation.
- Danielle Johnsrude, Director
Work-Integrated Learning and Career Services 2023 Highlights Report
This annual report highlights general trends and developments over the past year.
Student Stories
Creating opportunities for herself and others
Connection has played an important part in Kendra Neary’s post-secondary journey, especially because her path didn’t start the way she had planned. “I started…
Turning campus research experiences into global opportunities
From helping to build technology that takes a closer look inside cancer tumours, to presenting research at an international conference, Emily Mahony’s VIU…
Hands-on research helps student’s conservation career take flight
More than a decade after finishing high school, Alysia Boudreau started her post-secondary journey “with no formal science background and a lot of self-doubt…
Turning connection and curiosity into a double degree
When Chiara Sedola first arrived at VIU, she wasn’t planning on a particularly extensive post-secondary journey. Six years later, she graduates this spring…
Embracing every opportunity
When Tejas Sawant arrived in Nanaimo to begin VIU’s Master of Business Administration program, he was looking for the right combination of academic fit and…