The Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge will award Dr. Catherine Fichten its Fred Strache Leadership Award at the Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in March 2016. This conference, commonly known as the CSUN Conference, is the largest, oldest and only university-sponsored conference of its kind. It is now in…
The departments and programs of Dawson College want to assure potential students that we greatly value your interest in us, that our Open House has been delayed due to difficult labour negotiations, and that we expect it to be rescheduled at the nearest possible date. We encourage you to get in touch with our program…
As part of the Living Campus initiative with Sustainable Dawson, faculty, students and staff nurtured monarch chrysalises and caterpillars over the last three weeks. The pièce de résistance was the tagging and releasing of 175 monarch butterflies into the Peace Garden. According to the World Wildlife Federation, the monarch butterfly will travel between 2,000 –…
Julianna Joos of the Fine Arts Department is having a solo exhibition at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia. She has invited 18 students from the Visual Arts Program, registered in her Printmaking I classes, to exhibit with her; the students are : Melisa Badea, Rossana Chacon, Lucas Cormier-Afleck, Aidan Ferguson,…
Students from the Law, Society and Justice Student Association (and others) visited the National Assembly in Quebec City yesterday. Upon arriving, they had lunch in the National Assembly restaurant. Afterwards, they toured the National Assembly and then watched Question Period. The issues that appeared on the news last night (searching high school students, zoning of…
Last weekend, the largest ever Dawson College Model United Nations delegation of 57 students represented Dawson College at the McGill Model United Nations conference (McMUN) at the Sheraton Hotel Thursday through Sunday. This year McMUN continued its progression into one of the premier Model UN conferences in North America by attracting large numbers of student…
The Dawson College Research Ethics Board (REB) is currently seeking members. For more information and to apply, click here.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Isabelle Carrier as Assistant Dean, Social Science and Business Technologies. Isabelle has been with Dawson College since 2004 when she joined the History and Methods departments, the latter for which she serves as Coordinator. In addition to her teaching duties, she is involved with Dawson’s Kiuna partnership…
Thomas Henderson, who has been the Director of CRISPESH since February 2012, will step down from his duties on November 7 to take a position as Director General of Giant Steps School which specializes in education for students on the autism spectrum. Dawson College and the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal were awarded the CCTT (College Technology…
The Chair of the Board of Governors of Dawson College, Louise Kralka, announced Tuesday that after an in-camera session of the Board of Governors meeting on Monday, September 29, the members voted unanimously in favour of renewing the mandate of Director General Richard Filion for a period of five years, ending December 2019.
Last Modified: December 7, 2015
