St. Lawrence College — Local services in Ontario

Waste of money on residence and meal plan, everything advertised on the website is closed. Paid for a full semester of learning, didn't tell us we were learning online until our payments were confirmed, and when I asked numerous staff about why we were learning online when other schools are going back to in-person, they lied or wouldn't be direct with their answers. Every other institution I know has been able to fill lecture halls with hundreds of students in a socially distanced manner, I don't understand why SLC can't even attempt to do the same.

Paying thousands for a meal plan in a food court that has almost every station closed, better off paying money on fast food. The meal plan system is essentially a pre-paid card that you use in the campus food court, except the prices are sometimes actually higher than your typical fast food restaurant, so its pretty useless and limiting for students.

For some reason they only allowed people to get in the school from one entrance, so everyone on res has to walk across the entire perimeter of the campus just to get in. I don't know how many days I've walked over to find that the cafeteria has already closed, or one time they even said they just ran out of food completely at like 4PM. Spent so much extra money out of my own pocket from uber-eats and other food places just because the caf has been closed so many times.

They have a great new facility but the services are just so confusing and irritating as a first year. I wouldn't have gone to residence and pay their fees if I knew this would be what we get.

Also just keep in mind that the faculty have been on work to rule for the past few years, and it definitely reflects in their attitude & quality of teaching. The department head of the business school in Kingston was so unclear and lazy during her lectures that I had to file a complaint to the dean.

UPDATE: I am dropping out of this institution due to the misleading advertising of residence, poor experiences with faculty, and social isolation.

ANOTHER UPDATE: It's been nearly a year since I attended SLC, and since then I was clinically diagnosed with depression, anxiety, social anxiety, and ADHD. It was suggested by my doctor that some of these conditions developed during my time at school and my isolation on residence at the college in the fall of 2021.

I would like to also add that I received extraordinary help from SLC's Wellness and Accessibility Councilor in Kingston, Belinda Holmes. I wish that more of the faculty I communicated with last year were like Belinda, as she was extremely compassionate and empathetic to my situation, and helped me find a solution to my...

St. Lawrence College (SLC) is a College of Applied Arts and Technology with three campuses in Eastern Ontario, namely Brockville (1970), Cornwall (1968) and Kingston (founded September 1969).

Prior to the 1960s, only institutes of technology and vocational centres co-existed with universities in the province of Ontario at the post-secondary level, and many of those schools were established primarily to help veterans reintegrate into society in the post-war years. In response to an increasing need for technical education, Minister of Education (later Premier) William Davis, regarded now as the “father of the Ontario College System”, established Ontario's colleges of applied arts and technology to train individuals for employment in their respective communities. St. Lawrence College was founded during this period in 1967 as part of the province's initiative to create many such institutions. These schools were designed to provide career-oriented diploma and certificate courses, as well as continuing education programs in the communities in which they are located.

Brockville was originally proposed as the site for the main campus of St. Lawrence College, but Kingston was ultimately selected, since its larger population base would allow it to support a full campus. For the site, a 59-acre (24 ha) piece of farmland was purchased from the Ontario Psychiatric Hospital (now operated by Providence Continuing Care Centre) located at King St. W. and Portsmouth Ave. Brockville would retain a smaller campus, while the Cornwall and Kingston campuses were designed to serve six counties in Eastern Ontario (namely Frontenac, Leeds, Grenville, Dundas, Stormont and Glengary).

Some of the earliest full-time courses offered included such programs as Business Administration, Home Economics, Early Childhood Education, Engineering Technology, and Electronics Technician. Today, about 89 programs are offered.

In response to increasing enrolment, in part due to the double cohort, Ontario college's have received funding for expansion in recent years, including St. Lawrence College which has grown considerably since its founding.

The Government of Canada sponsors an Aboriginal Bursaries Search Tool that lists over 680 scholarships, bursaries, and other incentives offered by governments, universities, and industry to support Aboriginal post-secondary participation. St. Lawrence College scholarships for Aboriginal, First Nations and Métis students include: Brown's First Nations Opportunities Bursary; Aboriginal Postsecondary Education and...

Decided that Kingston would be a nice change up from Ottawa. Boy was I ever wrong. I joined a chat group on Facebook for people attending St. Lawrence that were staying in dorms. I thought it would be a great way to get to know new people before even living there. It was indeed a great idea and talked with a lot of new people. After talking about partying I got a message from the dorms running manager that I should not be promoting drinking in the dorms and such. I told her okay thats fine I wouldn't but she shouldn't be reading all our Facebook messages as those are private to students. When I got to the dorms they placed me in the room beside the front desk and security is. The bathroom inside our room was literally right beside sum ones office that we could hear talking all day long. Ever tried to study for a big test when sum ones yelling almost all day? Everyone that I had talked with were on higher floors than us and there was sum very inappropriate things going on but security didn't do anything about them. Just because we were placed right beside security we were always the one getting into trouble. They even took our packs of beer for bringing it in - we were all legal they had no right to do that. I then sat down with the dorm manager and she said I shouldn't be promoting drinking in dorms - if I'm legal I should be allowed to drink no matter. I was not giving it to anyone under age just our friends in dorms that were all legal. The classes were terrible as well - each class was half way around the school each time - walked a marathon each day. Not only that it was like we were in grade 9 again with everything so basic - I came to learn new things! The food was good however. Lasted one semester and then dropped out because the none sense of dorms only received 500$ back in food credit that I had to spend in one day out of the 6k paid. Terrible school that just...