Dawson students are K-Pop champions
April 6th, 2022
Congrats to our Dawson K-pop dancers who brought home the trophy after last week鈥檚 Intercollegiate K-Pop Triple Crown Dance Competition (KTCD)!
Students who performed this year are part of the local K-Pop dance performance group and for the first time ever, competed live against Champlain College, John Abbott College, Marianopolis College, and Vanier College.
Check out their winning performance on the College and accounts. Photo credit: Campus Life and Leadership team听
First-year student wins research bursary for work with Adaptech Research Network
April 6th, 2022
First-year Dawson Social Science student 础产颈驳补毛濒濒别 Vasseur is one of seven CEGEP students in Quebec to win a bursary for research work this winter semester. joined Dawson鈥檚 Adaptech Research Network and it was through this work that she won a Bourse pour stage d鈥檌nitiation 脿 la recherche pour la rel猫ve au collegial, valued at $3,000, from the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et culture.
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Dawson students brought petition to Quebec
March 23rd, 2022
Members of the Dawson Student Union were at the National Assembly on March 16 to see Member of the National Assembly for Westmount鈥揝aint-Louis Jennifer Maccarone officially present the petition, which had garnered 19,883 signatures in only three weeks! They also gave a press conference with the Leader of the Official Opposition Dominique Anglade and Jennifer Maccarone. You can watch our articulate student leaders address the Quebec media in this .
Director General Diane Gauvin will address the Quebec government鈥檚 decision on Dawson鈥檚 infrastructure project on Thursday in a letter to the Dawson community.
Petition launch at Dawson
March 9th, 2022
Dawson held a press conference on Feb. 24 to launch a in favour of maintaining the pavilion project. The Leader of Quebec's Opposition, Dominique Anglade, as well as local MNAs Jennifer Maccarone, who is sponsoring the petition, and David Birnbaum were on site to show their support, pictured speaking to students.
Here is some of the media coverage:
Graduates speak up
March 9th, 2022
At the end of February, the Communications Office in collaboration with faculty across several programs reached out to dozens of graduates and asked them to tell us about how Dawson contributed to their success and also how they are contributing to Quebec society.
Two graduates were featured on Dawson's social media accounts last week. In case you missed it, here are some links:
Five more days to show support for Dawson students
March 9th, 2022
The impact of the cancellation of Dawson鈥檚 pavilion project does not only affect Dawson students, but the whole Montreal community and all English-language institutions in Quebec. We need your help to gather as much support for Dawson as possible in the next five days!
Please share this message with your friends, family and network of contacts.
The Dawson community has rallied around Dawson following Premier Fran莽ois Legault's decision to cancel the pavilion project, take away space from our students and future students and shelve a downtown community clinic.
It is thanks to you that our petition is #1 on the National Assembly petition platform.听In one week, an impressive 10,000 signatures of support for Dawson were collected. However, we need your help to get as many Quebecers as possible to sign before our MNA Jennifer Maccarone presents the petition with the Dawson Student Union to the National Assembly on March 17.
The deadline to听听is March 15. Here's how you can help:
- Ask your friends, family, neighbours and contacts to sign it. Explain that they need to fill out the form and then confirm their signature by clicking a link in their email. A direct request one-on-one is probably more effective than sharing on social media.
- Send a request by email with the to your friends and ask them to sign it.
- Ask your colleagues and neighbours if they have signed it yet.
- Write to your Member of the National Assembly, template letters and resources are here:听/蝉耻辫辫辞谤迟-诲补飞蝉辞苍/听
- If you are a teacher, take two minutes of class time to explain the situation and invite your students to take a moment to sign it. It is for their future!
Petition to add Social Service to Bourses Perspective program
March 9th, 2022
The Quebec Government has launched a new program called which are incentive scholarships for Qu茅bec students who are enrolled full-time in various programs at Qu茅bec CEGEPs, private colleges and universities. It is intended to increase the number of qualified individuals in the fields prioritized by the government due to a labour shortage in essential public services as well as in strategic economic sectors.
You have three more days to add your name to a petition calling on the government to add the Social Service Program.
Black History Month continues at Dawson
February 16th, 2022
Black History Month continues at Dawson with several events and a poster exhibit in the 5C hallway on 26 remarkable Black Canadians.
All the events for students can be found on the events page of the CLL website:
/campus-life-leadership/black-history-events/
Andrew Katz contributed to new series of Blue Met audio stories
February 16th, 2022
just released a series of original audio stories for kids, in English and French, that they commissioned around the theme of ecology, the environment and sustainability. Andrew Katz (Faculty, English) is the author of one of the stories. 鈥淚t was a great pleasure to have gotten the chance to write and record one of them, alongside two terrific creators for young people, and . Special thanks as well to for her invaluable voice coaching,鈥� Andrew wrote.
You can give "Jackie's Window" and the other two stories a listen .
Statements on Dawson’s space deficit
February 16th, 2022
Here are statements that have been issued about the Dawson space deficit, which has been in the news for the last few weeks:
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