For Tracy Dupuis, returning to school at 36 was exciting, but it also came with plenty of questions. As a mother of two who had been out of school for years, she wasn’t sure where to begin, how to navigate the application process or how she would manage the financial side of going back to school. Continue reading
Academic Success
Are you looking to improve your academic performance? This segment of the blog will have advice and workshop opportunities to help you with your academic experience at AC!
Meet Gabriel Le Houillier, a twenty-year-old Rockland Nationals hockey player in the Central Canada Hockey League (CCHL). Le Houillier aspires to be a professional hockey player, but he’s building business knowledge along the way, taking classes through Algonquin College’s AC Online.

Action shot of Le Houillier playing for the Rockland Nationals.
What began as a 24-hour classroom project in the Advertising program is now launching as a community campaign to support youth in Ottawa.
Each year, third-year Ad students participate in a Boot Camp to develop full integrated marketing communications campaigns for a client—in just 24 hours! This year, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ottawa (BBBSO) challenged them to attract new monthly donors. The winning team of Jenna Bastarache, Lindsay Ott, Nick Parry, Fatima Rabi, and Erica Tran created No One Likes Losing Connection, an insight-driven campaign that has now officially launched as part of BBBSO’s monthly giving initiative.