Help the Food Bank feed students
September 25th, 2025
The Food Bank of the Financial Aid Office supports students who need that extra help to get through their time at Dawson College. Our shelves are always in need of a little love. Please consider adding a few extra items to your grocery order and drop them off at room 4E.2 or 4E.5. The semester is in full swing, and the visits are getting more frequent. Items that are well loved include: pasta sauce, pasta, ready made soups, rice, noodles, tea, instant coffee, boxed non-dairy milk products, peanut butter, jelly, cereal, Kraft Dinner, Knorr Sidekicks. Thank you for your continued support!
Expanded Food Justice program advances well-being for all
September 25th, 2025
The Food Justice program at Dawson has been significantly expanded this year. Free food is being offered five days a week to the Dawson community, a vital part of the College’s commitment to well-being for all. Coordinated by the Office of Sustainability and funded by the Dawson Foundation and the Dawson Student Union, the program addresses food insecurity while advancing social justice and sustainability on campus.
Diana Rice of the Office of Sustainability explains that there is a broader understanding of sustainability that includes peace and social justice. “Food Justice programming is a critical piece,” she says, due to its role in tackling the harmful impacts of industrial agriculture on the environment and marginalized communities. The program prioritizes ethical purchasing by sourcing organic and local food to reduce pollution, protect biodiversity, and support economic stability for vulnerable groups.
There is a major impact on students and the entire Dawson community. “A student once confided that being able to eat lunch or breakfast four days a week meant that they could give their mom a break in terms of groceries, which were becoming more and more unaffordable,” Diana shared. “They said it was a relief because they already felt guilty about going to school and not working full time to help support the family. Knowing that they could help save money and keep food in the pantry at home longer made going to school more worthwhile and kept it accessible.”
Visit the link for the homepage news story.
Weekly Work Pause for Health, Connection and Joy
September 25th, 2025
Visiting a museum, going for an urban hike and playing games are some of the activities that Dawson employees have enjoyed during their workdays over the past year. The College’s Human Resources team launched weekly Well-Being Hours in the fall of 2024. Every employee may spend one hour of worktime each week focusing on their personal well-being.
“It has made me really appreciate our Dawson community and all the new initiatives the College has offered in the last couple of years to work on well-being and community building,” said Sophie La Font, Project Coordinator in the Office of Sustainability. “I have met a lot of lovely new people that work outside my typical work sphere. These activities have helped me to feel more engaged and refreshed.”
For some resources and ideas, check out the HR well-being Sharepoint page.
Visit the link to read about other colleagues' experiences using the well-being hours in the homepage news story.
Book a Living Campus tour
September 11th, 2025
Living Campus Tours - This September: The Office of Sustainability loves to showcase the amazing work it has accomplished over the years with faculty, students, and various other partners! Take your students on a tour so they can get a sense of the campus, how they can volunteer as a Sustainabili-TEAM member with the Office of Sustainability (counts for ROSI hours) as well as all the different projects that have been spearheaded by students and faculty over the years.
Please visit the link to sign up for your tour!
September 11th, 2025
On June 11 and 12, the third edition of Dawson’s Inclusion and Wellness Retreat took place at the picturesque Far Hills Inn in the Laurentian mountains. Thirty people from a variety of departments (faculty and professionals) gathered to explore ways we can adapt our teaching approaches, interactions, and course design to meet a wide range…
Sustaining Friendships, Sustaining Campuses: Dawson at the Mexico–Canada Forum
September 11th, 2025
More than five years after the Mexico–Canada Sustainable Campuses Initiative wrapped up in 2019, its impact and friendships continue to thrive. In June, Dawson College faculty member Gisela Frias (Geography) and Chris Adam (retired Head of Sustainability) traveled to Mexico to represent Dawson at the 5th Binational Forum on Institutional Memory and Sustainability: Seeds of Yesterday, Fruits of Tomorrow. Both played central roles in the original initiative, which fostered international collaboration on sustainability in higher education.
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August 28th, 2025
Early Bird Breakfasts: Free breakfasts every Monday and Thursday, starting the week of Sept. 8. Join us in Conrod’s from 9:30 AM until supplies last for a FREE vegetarian breakfast. First come, first served! Brought to you by the Office of Sustainability, with the help of Student Services; funded by the Dawson College Foundation. Sustainable…
August 27th, 2025
This is your invitation to gather as a community with your colleagues and foster a beautiful Painted Lady Butterfly. “Caring for such small creatures together helps us recognize the importance of every living thing and the role they play in the ecosystem, reconnecting people, community and Nature,” said Sophie La Font of the Office of…
Employees are invited to join our Summer Sustainabili-Team voluntering program
May 14th, 2025
Do you enjoy being outdoors, or want to meet like-minded people who enjoy NATURE?
Join our Summer Sustainabili-team volunteers and help us maintain the multiple vegetable gardens, fruit trees, pollinator gardens, and biodiversity zones, or inspect beehives, help with composting, bird feeders, vermi-composts and more! In addition, we will take field trips to other organizations who have gardens, and will offer several workshops (examples include jam workshop, pest control, tea making)
It is thanks to our dedicated volunteers that our gardens thrive! We will contact you by email once you complete the form. The bees, butterflies, worms, birds, plants THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
Employees can use their weekly one hour of well-being time!
Sign-Up Form
New service for faculty offered by Student Services
May 14th, 2025
As of June 1, faculty will be able to book colleagues in Student Services as guest speakers and to run workshops in their classes.
The booklet entitled "Student Services Workshop Guide" can be found on Omnivox under the Student Services tab. Some examples you can expect to find are brief descriptions of workshops, five learning objectives for each workshop and staff contact information.
There are two goals: educating students on relevant topics and building bridges between Student Services and faculty to benefit students. Rhea Gurnagul, a frontline worker from Dawson’s Mental Health Services explains:
"The idea is to educate students on relevant topics, expand their skillset and/or simply inform them of support services available to them on campus depending on which workshop you choose. Our mission is to target a wider audience of students by visiting classroom settings as it's a less intimidating way for our students to meet staff, acquire helpful skills or knowledge. Ideally, we want to look at the big picture and also build a stronger community within our establishment, which was the second goal of this project.
"We want to bridge the gap between student services and faculty and have opportunities to form meaningful relationships which will in turn better our students’ experiences at the college, school is a big part of their lives. Be sure to think about us when writing your syllabus for the coming semesters. Happy Summer everyone!"
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