Students have greater needs this year so Dawson College is delivering more support. One example is the Dawson College Financial Aid Bursary (DCFAB), which was set up last fall by the Dawson Student Union (DSU), the Student Services team of the College and the Dawson College Foundation. The Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur has provided additional…
The Campus Life and Leadership team of Gianna Di Giacomo-Smith, Michelle Lee and Billi-Jo Poirier and their Blue Ring student volunteers have redefined success this semester. “At the beginning of last semester, we felt that we had to fill every day with programming because we thought the students needed daily activities during this isolation time,”…
Four final-year students in the Community, Recreation and Leadership Training (CRLT) Program presented a workshop to teachers at Ped Days Jan. 20 with the goal of bringing Sustainable Happiness into the virtual classrooms of Dawson College. It was the first time that students have been presenters at the annual professional development event for Dawson teachers….
Math is often viewed as a difficult subject but there are ways to make math accessible and interesting to everyone. Dawson College did just that last semester by offering a new course entitled When Math Meets Art. Claudia Farnesi, the first teacher of the course, shared a quote that inspired her from Swedish mathematician Gösta…
Director General Richard Filion will be retiring on Dec. 31, 2020 after 40 years of work in the CEGEP network. Richard began his term as Director General in January 2005 and was on duty at the time of the shooting in 2006. Under his leadership, the Dawson College community responded to these events in creative,…
Journalists and politicians in Quebec have said a lot of things about Dawson College recently. We thought it would be interesting for you to hear what some current Dawson students and some recent graduates think about their attachment to the French language and québécois culture. Dawson French department encouraged application to Université Laval Hayley Mendel,…
Dawson’s French-language tutoring centre, CLÉO, is offering a new way to practice French and share québécois culture: The CLÉO Podcast. The podcast (balado en français) episodes are between five to 10 minutes and are offered on an array of interesting topics, including author Gabrielle Roy, filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and Expo 67. The first one was…
D News, Dawson’s biweekly web-based newsletter, turns 1 this month. The first issue was posted Nov. 12, 2019. The initiative was promoted by Director General Richard Filion, who wished to give the Dawson community a means of being informed. Growing value of D News “The analytics, feedback and participation suggest that D News has become…
The 60th anniversary season premiere of The Nature of Things hosted by David Suzuki on Nov. 6 features an action-filled documentary that captures the beginnings of a movement that is changing the world. Rebellion brings viewers to the front lines of the climate rebellion, including Dawson College on Sept. 26, 2019, the day before the…
The Student Services team conducted a huge outreach campaign during the week of Study Break, Oct. 13-16. About 60 employees contacted all 4,000 first-year full-time and part-time students, enrolled in the day programs, as well as Continuing Education and AEC programs. It was the first time the team has done an outreach operation of this…
Last Modified: February 9, 2021
