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Richard Zajchowski

Richard Zajchowski "Zack", Access department

Biography:

Richard, best known by the nickname “Zack”, has enjoyed many years of working with students in Canadian post secondary institutions in a variety of roles. Currently he is the chair of the Academic and Career Foundations (ACF) department at Camosun College as well as being one of their math upgrading instructors. Prior to that Zack worked as a learning skills counsellor at Camosun and before that he worked for 11 years at Western University in London, Ontario. While there, he and his two learning skills colleagues co-authored the book Learning for Success – Effective Strategies for Students, a Canadian bestseller now in its 4th edition. Zack began his teaching career as a physics instructor at CEGEP John Abbott College near Montreal .

Published works

Love, Hope, Optimism by Charis Wahl (Editor); James L. Turk (Editor)
Call Number: FC 641 L39 L68 2012
Publication Date: 2012
When Jack Layton died unexpectedly in the summer of 2011, millions of people mourned the loss of a man who had emerged as a much-loved political leader. They saw him as someone who combined values they shared with a personal style they admired. In this book, co-editors James L. Turk and Charis Wahl have gathered stories and anecdotes about Jack Layton from a wide range of people who knew him at different stages during his life and career. These contributions offer an engaging and informal biographical portrait of Jack as a young man in Hudson, Quebec, as a lecturer at Ryerson University, as a Toronto city councillor, and as the leader of the NDP. The contributors include family and friends, colleagues, politicians, and constituents. Among them are Ed Broadbent, Sarah Layton, Svend Robinson, Tim Flannery, Peggy Nash, Jean Charest, Brian Topp, Richard Zajchowski, Libby Davies, and Shawn Atleo. Royalties from the sale of this book will go to the Broadbent Institute.