Carmela Gumelli to serve as Interim Academic Dean
December 1st, 2020
The Board of Governors appointed Carmela Gumelli to the position of Academic Dean at their Nov. 25 meeting.
Carmela will serve an interim term from Jan. 1- June 30, 2021. With the support of the managers in the Registrar’s Office and her fellow deans, Carmela will continue as Dean of Academic Systems while taking on this new role.
After working as a teacher, program coordinator and campus director at a private college, Carmela joined Dawson College in 2005 as Manager of Admissions and Scheduling. She later served as Coordinator of Academic Systems before becoming the Dean of Academic Systems in 2014. Carmela holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Accounting from McGill University and is a CMA-CPA.
Carmela is looking forward to new challenges and to working more closely with faculty.
Click Read More for homepage news story, which includes a link to the French version.
December 1st, 2020
A brand new program of study was approved at the Nov. 25 meeting of the Board of Governors. The Medical Ultrasound Technology Program will be offered at Dawson College for the first time in the fall of 2021. Faculty member and program developer Ania Stosiak presented the new program to the Board. She said Dawson…
Diane Gauvin will be our new Director General
November 19th, 2020
Diane Gauvin will be the new Director General of Dawson College. On Nov. 18, following a recommendation from the Selection Committee and unanimous support from Senate, the Board of Governors appointed her to a five-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2021.
Diane has strong assets to lead a vision for Dawson College and to rally and engage the community to move forward on that vision, according to the Board of Governors.
Click Read More for the full appointment notice on our homepage.
November 3rd, 2020
Dawson AI report Joel Trudeau, co-lead of Dawson AI, presented the progress report. There are now distinct Communities of Practice (C of P) related to Dawson AI: one is focused on teaching and the other is on applied research. Carl Saucier-Bouffard (Humanities) is the co-lead of Dawson AI and also leads the teaching C of…
Job posting for new Director General
September 22nd, 2020
The search for the new Director General is well underway. Advertisements have already appeared in The Montreal Gazette, La Presse and The Globe and Mail as well as in more education-specific job boards and sites. Click Read More for the full job posting.
September 8th, 2020
Richard Filion has served as Director General of Dawson College since January 2005. His leadership and what he has brought to Dawson has been “remarkable,” said Michael Goldwax, Chair of Dawson’s Board of Governors. This decade and a half of service to the College will end Dec. 31, 2020. At the Aug. 31 meeting, the…
June 9th, 2020
News from June 8 Board meeting On June 8, the Board of Governors of Dawson College met for the last time before the summer break. Sustainability Report The meeting began with a presentation of the Sustainability Office’s Annual Report for the 2018-2019 year by Chris Adam. Chris pointed out some of the achievements of that…
April 28th, 2020
Each director of Dawson College gave a brief report to the Board of Governors at a special April 22 meeting, which had full attendance. Director General Richard Filion spoke about how everyone has worked hard to maintain essential services, such as admissions, staffing, and budget planning, while dealing with an evolving situation and sometimes contradictory…
March 31st, 2020
On Monday, March 30, the Board of Governors held a special meeting to address one topic: the College’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the meeting was to pass a motion to allow the Director General and Academic Dean to make timely decisions in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak. “The Ministry of…
Revised Strategic Plan online
March 10th, 2020
The revised Strategic Plan is now online. Click Read More to get to the Strategic Plan web page with a link to the full document in pdf format.
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