First-year Dawson Social Science student Abigaëlle Vasseur is one of seven CEGEP students in Quebec to win a bursary for research work this winter semester. Abigaëlle joined Dawson’s Adaptech Research Network and it was through this work that she won a Bourse pour stage d’initiation à la recherche pour la relève au collegial, valued at…
Late yesterday afternoon, the College received a letter from Danielle McCann, the Minister of Higher Education. This letter serves as an official confirmation of the cancellation of Dawson’s much-needed infrastructure project. Once again, she stated that the decision was based on her government’s intention to prioritize infrastructure projects for francophone CEGEPs. The denial of additional…
Florence Yee is a visual artist, Dawson Alum, and serial collaborator based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their exhibition Sharp Tools for Unripe Fruit features photographs on fabric and hand-embroidered text, now on view at the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery until April 14. On a recent Tuesday evening, two second-year visual art students, Sabrina Schmidt…
QUEBEC (March 16, 2022) – A delegation from the Dawson Student Union (DSU) came to the National Assembly today to deliver their petition. In just three weeks, some 20,000 Quebecers signed the DSU petition asking the Government of Quebec to maintain Dawson’s infrastructure project. Member of the National Assembly for Westmount–Saint-Louis, Jennifer Maccarone, officially presented…
Québec, le 16 mars 2022 – Une délégation de l’Association étudiante de Dawson (AÉD) s’est rendue à l’Assemblée nationale aujourd’hui pour livrer sa pétition. En tout juste trois semaines, quelque 20 000 Québécois et Québécoises ont signé la pétition de l’AÉD demandant au gouvernement du Québec de maintenir le projet d’infrastructure de Dawson. La députée de Westmount–Saint-Louis,…
MONTREAL (March 11, 2022) – Quebecers have rallied around Dawson College in the wake of the Quebec government cancelling the new healthcare pavilion, which would house a community clinic and Dawson’s seven healthcare programs. Seven years of work have already been invested in the infrastructure project that would finally solve the chronic student space deficit…
A new four-minute video presents the Sustainable Happiness Certificate, which has been offered since 2015 at Dawson to students and employees. We hear about the impact of the program from past students and the value of it from teachers. Sustainable Happiness helps students learn how to take care of their self, so they can in…
Before he served time in prison, Brandon Dawson-Jarvis graduated from Dawson College and from the University of Ottawa. Brandon (Class of 2007, Social Science – Psychology Profile) has been in the news during Black History Month because CBC Quebec named him a 2022 Quebec Black Changemaker for his inspiring yoga enterprise named Grove Campus and…
Montréal, le jeudi 10 février 2022 – Le conseil d’administration du Collège Dawson a adopté une résolution appelant le gouvernement du Québec à aller de l’avant avec son projet d’infrastructure important, qui accueillera sept programmes en santé ainsi qu’une clinique-école. « Le déficit d’espace de Dawson a été reconnu par le ministère de l’Éducation supérieure, explique Michael…
Montréal, Thursday, February 10, 2022 – The Board of Governors of Dawson College has passed a resolution calling on the Quebec government to move forward with an important infrastructure project that will house seven health programs and a clinique-école. “Dawson’s space shortage was recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education,” explained Michael Goldwax, Chair of…
Last Modified: February 10, 2022
