For the past two weeks, many teachers have become students learning all about online teaching platforms. They have also been working hard to adapt course outlines and figure out how to present their material online while maintaining academic integrity and continuing to engage their students. Dawson’s Communications Office spoke with two teachers about resuming teaching…
The management team of Dawson College and many employees have been working very hard to find solutions to salvage the Winter 2020 Semester for our students. The College has been closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic since March 13 and is currently slated to re-open May 1. Meanwhile classes must resume before May 1 to…
MONTREAL (March 20, 2020) – While Dawson College remains closed, essential work continues. The Director General, the Academic Dean, the directors, the deans, managers, and many employees are hard at work to develop a comprehensive plan for the resumption of activities. Next week (week of March 24), no classes or activities will be held. The…
The Dawson College Physical Education Team offers this advice on how to stay active while at home. You are working from home, social distancing is upon us, and your commercial gym is no longer open. However, that does not mean your physical activity routine should be put on hold. Moreover, this temporary work change may…
For the most recent updates, please visit the special Coronavirus update page here: https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/news/coronavirus/ March 13 12:22 p.m. update: As of March 13 at 11 p.m., Dawson College will be closed for two weeks in compliance with the directives from the Quebec Government to help slow the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). All classes and activities are…
It is important to start pressing the Canadian government to work on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Elizabeth May told about 220 students at Dawson College March 5. “Canada has signed on to all the SDGs,” she said. Dawson College is working to advance SDGs across Canada in partnership with eight other colleges. Elizabeth…
Are you going to teach crochet? That was the question that a Senate member at Concordia University (then Sir George Williams) asked Greta Hofmann Nemiroff when Women’s Studies was being presented. “I replied to him: ‘no, but if I did crochet, I would be happy to teach you,’” she said. This year marks the 50th…
Conducting applied research to improve the lives of people living in a disabling situation has been the work of CRISPESH for almost 10 years. CRISPESH is the name of a CCTT (College Centre for the Transfer of Technologies) at Dawson College in partnership with the Cégep du Vieux Montréal that is unique in Quebec. CCTTs…
Dawson College teachers Selma Hamdani and Yann Brouillette share their experience with the innovative pedagogy of active learning and the peer support of the Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC) in a new video requested by the Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur. The video was produced as a knowledge sharing initiative to benefit CEGEP…
Margaux Roncière, who will be graduating from Dawson College in Pure and Applied Science this spring, has won Canada’s largest undergraduate award: the Loran Award. “It was unreal when I heard the news!” Margaux told Dawson Communications. “I am very happy and surprised! It is still settling in.” Margaux applied in the fall and went…
Last Modified: February 18, 2020
