Interior Design students raise thousands of dollars in an hour
February 14th, 2025
On Jan. 22, a class of Interior Design students were told at 10 AM that if they could raise $500 in an hour for their Vernissage, a donor would match the $500.
Chris Adam of the Office of Sustainability shared a story with them about a Community, Recreation and Leadership Training class that raised over $2,000 in an hour many years ago to get the Peace Garden project started.
Visit the link to find out how much they raised and what the students thought.
Working together for curricular alignment
February 11th, 2025
Coordinators from six career programs in the arts and medical studies at Dawson met regularly throughout the Fall 2024 semester to work on improving program and course alignment to meet program competencies. The participating programs were: Medical Ultrasound, Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology, from the Science, Medical Studies and Engineering sector, and Interior Design, Product Design (Industrial Design) and Illustration, from the Creative and Applied Arts sector.
The project was initiated and facilitated by Einat Idan and Monica Lopez, pedagogical counsellors at Dawson’s Office of Academic Development with support by Vanessa Lyness and Chao Zhang. Einat and Monica shared the project with colleagues from Dawson and the other English-language CEGEPs in Quebec during a talk at Intercollegiate Ped Day on Jan. 14.
Visit the link for a full report.
Learning from Community in Cuba
January 30th, 2025
On January 14, 10 students and two teachers in the Social Change & Solidarity (SCS) profile returned from a three-week solidarity delegation to Cuba. The trip was organized in partnership with the Centro Martin Luther King, an organization in Cuba that promotes local and global justice through popular education and grassroots community-building.
Visit the link for a report by Sara Louise Kendall.
Social Science students experience four-day immersion in local solidarity movements
January 30th, 2025
In January, 18 Dawson students from the Social Change & Solidarity (SCS) and General Studies profiles went live on the radio at CKUT: 90.3-FM. “This song is dedicated to the people we met this week from the group Solidarity Across Borders,” announced Emerson Rheault, a student in SCS, into the microphone. “Solidarity was really the theme of this entire week.”
Visit the link to read the report by Sara Louise Kendall.
Helping prepare students to face real life situations
January 29th, 2025
Building the belief that “I’ve got this” was the subject of CRLT teacher Heather Martin’s Performa project. The belief that you can achieve your goals, or self-efficacy, was the focus of her research paper and Intercollegiate Ped Day workshop.
(Pictured: Heather, far right, with her students at the Winter Outdoor Experience course)
Visit the link for a report on her presentation.
The power of kindness
January 29th, 2025
It is well established that post-secondary students are experiencing elevated levels of stress, anxiety and loneliness. Teachers are also experiencing heightened levels of stress in their workplace.
Kindness and well-being can feed and fuel optimal learning, Dr. John-Tyler Binfet told an audience of about 150 participants during his keynote talk at Intercollegiate Ped Day on Jan. 13.
Visit the link for a report on his talk.
DSU collects over 1,600 signatures (+counting) for Indigenous rights petition
August 28th, 2024
The Dawson Student Union set up in the Upper Atrium from Aug. 26-28 to gather signatures supporting Indigenous students disproportionately affected by Law 14 (formerly Bill 96). Their petition in the Quebec National Assembly is sponsored by Westmount-Saint-Louis MNA Jennifer Maccarone, who joined the effort on campus on Aug. 27, lending her voice to the cause.
Many Indigenous students say Law 14 goes against their constitutional right to self-determination in matters of education, including the priority to continue learning in their own Indigenous languages. They say the new French proficiency requirements create a significant barrier to accessing post-secondary education and that the government is adding more bureaucratic hurdles to their success.
The petition to exempt Indigenous students from Law 14 has already reached 1,600 signatures, but the work isn’t done.
If you haven’t yet signed, there is still time to sign the petition before the Sept. 30 deadline.
Testimonies reveal impact of New School on alumni
May 23rd, 2024
Leading up to the reunion and 50th anniversary celebration on April 13, New School alumni were asked to share their stories “because of New School.”
To read a selection of testimonies from alumni of various decades, visit the link.
Indigenous students reflect on their work exhibited at Dawson’s gallery
May 23rd, 2024
Indigenous students at Dawson celebrated a year of land-based learning at a vernissage of their artwork and projects on May 10 at the Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery.
The work was created in the Learning Perspectives course of the Journeys program co-taught by Amanda Lickers and Jocelyn Parr over the last academic year of 2023-2024.
Student Zye Rashontiiostha Mayo said there were two goals for the exhibit: “sharing our artwork and sharing our voices.”
Visit the link for a homepage news story, which includes interviews with three student artists and photos from the exhibit.
Food researchers from around the world gathered at Dawson
May 23rd, 2024
Industrialized food production and international food supply chains significantly increase food insecurity, worsen environmental degradation, and lead to inadequate livelihoods especially for women and youth. Food systems have the potential to be multi-functional levers for change. Small-scale, Indigenous, and traditional approaches can offer needed solutions for transformation.
Last week at Dawson College, a group of food researchers from Kenya, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and other parts of Canada met each other for the first time as part of a new major international project to identify, measure, and tell the stories of regional sustainable food systems. The project is called FLOW (Food, Learning and Growing) Partnership: Seeding Sustainability Transformation.
Visit the link for the homepage news story.
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