Dawson College will continue to offer most courses online for the Summer and Fall Semesters in order to protect its students and staff and the greater Montreal community. Montreal remains a hot zone for COVID-19. The Ministry of Education has directed all CEGEPs and universities in Montreal to continue offering courses online. There will be…
Spring is always a good time to reconsider your transportation options. One of the best ways to prevent health problems and boost your immunity is to stay healthy. Bicycling is probably the simplest way for you to maintain cardio-vascular health on a daily basis. When we are back on campus, you can get to work…
Since January, I have been serving as the Interim President of the Dawson College Foundation. When I accepted this mandate, I could never have imagined the crisis we are all living through at this moment. At the last meeting, we were looking forward to our spring fundraising events, including Artists in Bloom, the Tony Proudfoot…
A board game and an e-book are the two major outputs of a research project that spanned four years and brought together academic and community partners in Canada and in Mexico. “Research is usually something researchers do and they produce academic articles for academic journals,” said Dawson College’s Gisela Frias, Profile Coordinator of North-South Studies….
The management team of Dawson College and many employees have been working very hard to find solutions to salvage the Winter 2020 Semester for our students. The College has been closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic since March 13 and is currently slated to re-open May 1. Meanwhile classes must resume before May 1 to…
MONTREAL (March 20, 2020) – While Dawson College remains closed, essential work continues. The Director General, the Academic Dean, the directors, the deans, managers, and many employees are hard at work to develop a comprehensive plan for the resumption of activities. Next week (week of March 24), no classes or activities will be held. The…
The Dawson College Physical Education Team offers this advice on how to stay active while at home. You are working from home, social distancing is upon us, and your commercial gym is no longer open. However, that does not mean your physical activity routine should be put on hold. Moreover, this temporary work change may…
For the most recent updates, please visit the special Coronavirus update page here: https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/news/coronavirus/ March 13 12:22 p.m. update: As of March 13 at 11 p.m., Dawson College will be closed for two weeks in compliance with the directives from the Quebec Government to help slow the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). All classes and activities are…
It is important to start pressing the Canadian government to work on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Elizabeth May told about 220 students at Dawson College March 5. “Canada has signed on to all the SDGs,” she said. Dawson College is working to advance SDGs across Canada in partnership with eight other colleges. Elizabeth…
Are you going to teach crochet? That was the question that a Senate member at Concordia University (then Sir George Williams) asked Greta Hofmann Nemiroff when Women’s Studies was being presented. “I replied to him: ‘no, but if I did crochet, I would be happy to teach you,’” she said. This year marks the 50th…
Last Modified: May 12, 2020
