Students, staff and even the little ones in the Dawson Daycare enjoyed the Lion Dancers. Director General Diane Gauvin, Academic Dean Leanne Bennett and Student Services Coordinator Caroline Blouin ready to feed the lions. Photos by Michelle Lee
Give a gift to yourself or a friend: handmade crochet earrings in your choice of colours. All proceeds go to Dawson’s Financial Aid Food Bank.
The suggested price is $5 per earring or $10 for a pair (or more if you can afford it).
Email Sonia Zylberberg (szylberberg@dawsoncollege.qc.ca) for more info and to order your earrings.
Student Services is now providing support for students with housing needs. Amy Soulis of Student Services says the goal is “to inform students of all housing options and the importance of knowing their rights as tenants.”
“We visited numerous dormitory-style housing options around the school and have them listed on our webpage,” said Amy Soulis, who works in Dawson’s Student Employment Centre and has now added housing support to her portfolio. The webpage is Housing (Off Campus) – Dawson College.
Dawson has partnered with Places4students website (Places4Students.com - Dawson College - Montreal, QC) to offer a database of available housing options to students.
Any student who needs assistance can email Amy at: amsoulis@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Student Services also offered a housing rights workshop last semester. Another one is being considered for this semester. The purpose is to explain renters’ rights to students.
Campus recreation has a whole schedule for employees and students to get moving and feel good.
There are classes in pilates, yoga, circuit training as well as badminton, weight training, martial arts, volleyball and rock climbing.
Open House is Feb. 5-16 and everything is free!
Check out the schedule here: https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/campus-life/recreation
For more info: email campusrecreation@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Twenty-four students took part in a street art mural project in December at Dawson. Their work has added colour, beauty and a youthful feel to the 2C hallway, the location of student clubs and close to common spaces of the college.
This art project was fully funded by Equitas, a nongovernmental organization based in Montreal that works to advance human rights in Canada and around the world. The project was overseen by MU Mtl, which has a mission to beautify the city of Montreal by creating murals.
For the homepage news story, including interviews with some of the students involved, visit the link below.
The Dawson College Model UN (DCMUN) team had a great experience at the Secondary Schools’ United Nations Symposium (SSUNS) conference hosted by McGill University Nov. 9-12.
"Gaveling" is the highest award in the Model UN world and three Dawson students "gaveled" and others received honourable mentions.
For the homepage news story, visit the link.
Dawson’s K-Pop dance team, IntenCITY, under Campus Life, was featured on the front page of The Montreal Gazette on Nov. 1. The dancers hosted a Random Dance Play activity where snippets of K-Pop songs are played. If you know the choreography of the dance, you jump onto the dance floor and dance in unison. The activity always brings a lot of spectators and of course, K-Pop dance fanatics.
“Dawson has competed in the Intercollegiate Triple Crown K-Pop Dance competition the last four years,” said Michelle Lee of the Campus Life team in Student Services. “We brought home the trophy the last two years. We compete against Vanier, Marianopolis, Champlain, John Abbott, and last year, Brébeuf was included. Each school performs three dances. Dawson’s team, IntenCITY, is strong again this year and is working hard to hold onto the trophy at the 2024 competition.”
People of all ethnic backgrounds are part of this community, not only Koreans, Michelle says.
Sonia Zylberberg (Faculty, Religion) is crocheting earrings to raise money for Dawson’s Financial Aid Food Bank.
This initiative began in the Women's/Gender Studies community, and they would like to invite the Dawson Community to participate as well.
“With rises in the cost of groceries, the need is greater now than ever. Order these earrings in the colour of your choice and help students in need,” wrote Johanne Rabbat, Coordinator of Women’s/Gender Studies and Chair of the Religion Department.
The suggested price is $5 per earring or $10 for a pair. If you can afford to pay more, please do because all money collected will go to the Food Bank.
To order one handmade original earring or a pair, email Sonia at szylberberg@dawsoncollege.qc.ca and indicate your first and second choice of colour.
Dawson is committed to creating a safe and respectful workplace for all its community members. Sexual violence has no place in the College, and we take all reports of such behaviour seriously.
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A student-led project at Dawson has won the provincial Forces Avenir award in the category of Mutual Aid, Peace and Justice. On Sept. 27 during a gala in Quebec City, the award was presented to a group of Dawson graduates and students who founded the Mahsa Amini Initiative.
Visit the link below for the homepage news story.
Last Modified: February 9, 2024
