Message from our Director General

Uncertainty is everywhere as the whole world “presses pause” to deal with the worst pandemic in over 100 years.

Separating the wheat from the chaff
Each time a crisis occurs, it provides us with the opportunity to “separate the wheat from the chaff.” We are called to strip away the unessential tasks and distractions, focus on the present moment and on the truly important people and tasks in our lives.

Rising up to these challenging times requires the best we can give without holding back.

While we don’t know how this public health crisis will continue to unfold, we do know that we will need to use our creativity, imagination and resourcefulness to get through.

Solidarity and support are required to slow down the pandemic and hopefully defeat the virus. We need to practice social outreach in new ways while maintaining our new (temporary) lifestyle of social distancing.

Keeping our distance and getting closer 
Let’s keep our distance, but get closer to the human beings we are journeying with.

For many of us that will mean finding new ways to reach out to the students in our classes. For the rest of us, it will mean being closer to teachers to provide the best support we can to them and to our basic educational mission.

We will learn a new way of being Dawson College. Keeping focused on the essential task at hand, we will get through this and we will be smarter, stronger and hopefully more human on the other side.

Courage 
Let us be filled with courage while forging ahead on this untrodden path. We have the chance to work for our students, while others are asked to remain idle.

This is an unprecedented challenge and we are totally committed to making this work for the sake of our students and our society. Rest assured that you will kept up to date as we have news to share.

Thank you again for your patience, flexibility and resourcefulness.

Yours sincerely,
Richard

Richard Filion
Director General