Decolonizing and Indigenizing a college is 鈥渁 long-term project,鈥� said Intercollegiate Ped Day keynote speaker Isabelle Picard during her Jan. 11 talk entitled Toward a Decolonization of College Education. The Wendat author, lecturer, columnist and ethnologist covered many aspects of聽decolonizing our educational institutions so that our learning communities are more equitable, inclusive and fair. For…
Make a life-saving appointment and give blood at聽Dawson鈥檚 Blood Drive:
Dawson鈥檚 Sustainability Advisory Committee is developing a Landscape Master Plan and wants to hear from the Dawson community. With the community鈥檚 input and ideas, committee members are dreaming about and reviewing how we use the college building envelope and grounds.
All Dawson employees are invited to give feedback by contacting the Sustainability Office or attending a drop-in info session:
This is your chance to make your suggestions about the use and design of our campus for leisure, organized recreation, learning, increasing biodiversity, promoting health and well-being for all.
Written feedback or sketches can be sent to Sophie La Font in the Sustainability Office (4B.3A). Faculty members are welcome to involve their classes in this process, please contact Sophie La Font if interested.
An invitation from Melicha of Miriam on Campus Program: “We are the Miriam on Campus Program. Many of you already know our group since we are implicated at Dawson for numerous years. I would like to take the opportunity to introduce ourselves. Our program鈥檚 purpose is to promote the development of work, social and interpersonal…
The Dawson Foundation and the Sustainability Office would like to thank the 33 volunteers who gave their time in December and all those who donated at the Dawson gift-wrapping station in Alexis-Nihon Mall.
Over 21 days of holiday gift-wrapping, a total of $9,900 was raised. These funds will be used by the Sustainability Office for learning activities and projects that contribute to well-being for all on our Living Campus. While getting their gifts wrapped, visitors and donors learned about Dawson鈥檚 Living Campus projects, including the gardens, the beehives, the Monarch Butterflies and more.
The heart of the North-South Studies Profile of Social Science is the field trip. For the first time since 2019-鈥�20, the profile students and faculty were able to go to Cuba.
Here is what Profile Coordinator Gisela Frias wrote from Cuba in December as a caption to this photo: 鈥淥ur first trip since the pandemic. Our first stop, Plaza de la Revoluci贸n. We are being hosted by the Martin Luther King Center. Let the learning begin. Thank you to all of you who have supported this trip. Thank you to Dawson staff and teachers, to alumni and to the greater community. Also thank you to members of Place de la Dignit茅 who mobilized to support the donation drive we carried out.鈥�
On Jan. 16, Karina Gould, Canada鈥檚 Federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, visited Dawson to learn more about our Sustainable Happiness Course.
This is what she about it after her visit:
鈥淎 future includes having a healthy, happy and sustainable lifestyle. Through the Sustainable Happiness Certificate, students at develop strategies to integrate positive psychology, well-being and happiness in our everyday lives.鈥�
Student Services has launched its new partnership with a more comprehensive student assistance program. Beginning immediately, the Counselling department will be referring students, when appropriate, to the keep.meSAFE service by Lifeworks. Lifeworks (formerly Morneau Shepell) is the same provider as Dawson鈥檚 Employee Assistance Plan for faculty and staff. Since the students鈥� return to campus following…
On the first days of class, free condom distributors were placed throughout the College in high-traffic bathrooms and in Student Health Services offices.
The free condom distribution is part of a Sant茅 Publique initiative to reduce sexually transmitted infections and diseases (STIs and STDs). A total of 60,000 condoms were provided to 成人黑料.
A dozen projects proposed by Dawson students, faculty and staff have been approved for funding through the Dawson Foundation鈥檚 new Student Academic Enrichment Fund.
A website page showcases the projects and allows others to invest in a particular project through a donate button.
The Student Academic Enrichment Fund is supported by students each semester and is meant to be a source of funds for projects that demonstrate a clear benefit for Dawson students and represent an activity that goes over and above core competencies for completion of a program. The selection committee, including representatives from the Dawson Student Union, Academics and Student Services, meets twice a year to review and approve project proposals.
The next round of project applications will open later this semester and will be announced in D News and the Omnivox student news feed.
Last Modified: February 8, 2023
