The big welcome sign was hung in the Atrium to welcome new and returning students for the first week of classes that began Aug. 31. However, it was a back-to-school week different from any other in the last half century of Dawson College.
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Another 2,600 graduates joined the big family of Dawson College alumni over the summer.
In the coming weeks, they will all receive a special grad package in the mail. The College made a special Virtual Commencement Speech video addressed to the Class of 2020 and held an intimate Awards Ceremony Aug. 12.
A news story, the video and a list of awards recipients are in the Read More link.
On Aug. 31, the Fall 2020 Semester officially begins. The majority of courses will be offered online. The campus is now open but restricted to employees and students. Director General Richard Filion has formed a Steering Committee, which will be responsible for developing COVID-related procedures and monitoring the situation. The Committee is chaired by the…
About 650 summer students in Math, Chemistry and Physics wrote exams the week of Aug. 3 on campus at Dawson College.
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Welcome Days Week began today for all new students. On Tuesday, students in Social Science and Business Technologies had their Welcome Plenary Session online. On Wednesday, it will be students in Science, Medical Studies and Engineering. On Thursday, it will be the turn of students in Creative & Applied Arts. The students are being given a two-minute…
While it seems like it was only yesterday that the world came to a shuddering stop, it also feels like this pandemic has been going on for over 600 years. In this strange too-short-too-long span of time, we have witnessed and lived through an entire history book of events, movements and phenomena. Though they may…
During her career as a teacher of Physical Education, Dawson’s Joanna Farmer has developed expertise in teaching posture.
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Post-secondary aged youth are a social group too often consumed by uncertainty about their future and inadequate opportunities for personal fulfillment. They are immersed in questions relating to adolescence, to their current relationship with family, their community, and the overall system they live in. Known causes of stress Normal adolescent development, the climate crisis, and…
On March 11, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Two days later, classes ended for spring break and Dawson College closed for what turned out to be the rest of the semester. Teachers and the newly launched Faculty Hub were plunged into an education emergency: completing the semester for about 9,000 students.
Click Read More for the homepage news story about how the Faculty Hub supported teachers through this extraordinary end of semester.
As we come to the end of this challenging semester, SPACE (Sciences Participating with Arts and Culture in Education) is preparing for an online Fall semester in which we will continue to host and build on our usual venues and activities––website, web magazine, contests, talks, conferences, exhibitions, etc.––while adapting to this new reality of online…
Last Modified: September 8, 2020
