A heartfelt THANK YOU from the Awards Office to the MANY faculty and staff members who helped support the Awards Office in the offering of the awards to our awesome students this semester (you know who you are)! Thank you for taking your valuable time to: Participate in one of the many Awards Selection Committees-…
The Class of 2020 is graduating during a pandemic and a shutdown. As a way to pay tribute to their efforts, the Communications Office has prepared a surprise video.
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Today is the last issue of D News for the 2019-2020 Academic Year. We won't actually be fishing, but we will be enjoying the summer rhythm of "Balconville."
Wishing everyone a refreshing and renewing time off. We plan for D News to be back on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
If you have ideas, news and information to share that you wish in that first issue, please use the submit news button or write to Christina by 12 p.m. Aug. 21.
Dawson College was in the news last week:
June 2: CTV Montreal covered our innovative Vernissage Season , which continues this week
June 6: The Journal de Québec ran a story about our new pavilion
Please note there are inaccuracies in this story, especially about welcoming more students. Dawson will be getting more space to enhance pedagogical approaches and create a better learning environment.
Communities around the world have been mobilizing against racism in recent days. This mobilization is a reaction to the most recent murder of another unarmed Black person.
On May 25, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by a police officer after saying he could not breathe and pleading for his life. Even though we are living through a pandemic, many people decided that the risk of contracting COVID-19 was less important than showing solidarity with Black, Indigenous, people of colour and other marginalized groups.
Dawson College wishes to express our support for this struggle for justice and our desire to end systemic racism. Click Read More for the full statement.
The last issue of D News before the summer break will be Tuesday, June 16. Faculty's last day of availability is June 17.
If you have news or ideas to share, please use the submit news form or email Christina
Your feedback is also most useful as we plan D News for the coming 2020-2021 Academic Year. D News will return in the new semester, date to be determined.
“A perfect volunteer” was a key phrase used in the nomination of Kathleen Collins for the Lieutenant Governor Youth Medal, awarded by Quebec’s Lieutenant Governor to students who “demonstrate a sustained voluntary action at the community and social levels.”
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Dawson College made the front page of The Montreal Gazette on the occasion of Earth Day
Global TV and City TV also reported about Dawson's work to live well-being for all, sustainably and on our pledge to be Carbon Neutral Forever.
Our Loran Scholar Margaux Roncière (a Dawson College student in her last year of Pure and Applied Science) was interviewed on CBC Radio's afternoon program Let's Go on March 16. The Loran is Canada's largest undergraduate scholarship.
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Dawson College is working on solutions to salvage the semester and applications are being processed as usual.
As of March 23, the Admissions Team had sent out 4,700 offers of admission.
Dawson College shared this news with our employees first and then with select media on March 20. CJAD 800 AM interviewed Director General Richard Filion during the Andrew Carter Morning Show March 23.
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Last Modified: February 14, 2022
