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June 16th, 2020
During her career as a teacher of Physical Education, Dzʿ’s Joanna Farmer has developed expertise in teaching posture. “Teaching posture became a specialty for me,” said Joanna, who will be retiring in December 2020. About six years ago, the Nursing Department requested that Joanna develop a course to help their students reduce the risk for…
June 16th, 2020
Class of 2020, you did it! You have completed your CEGEP studies despite a pandemic and a historic closure of Dzʿ! Your efforts and success are worthy of a great celebration this year. Your teachers and all employees of Dzʿ feel sad that we can’t hold our Convocation at Place des Arts. Surprise…
June 4th, 2020
Communities around the world have been mobilizing against racism in recent days. This mobilization is a reaction to the most recent murder of another unarmed Black person. On May 25, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by a police officer after saying he could not breathe and pleading for his life. Even though we are…
June 2nd, 2020
Six ginkgo trees were the only survivors in the immediate blast area of the world’s first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 during World War II. Thanks to their deep roots, the trees survived this catastrophic act of war that destroyed 90 per cent of the Japanese city and killed about 100,000 people. With time, new…
June 2nd, 2020
On Monday, June 1, a small group of Dzʿ students returned to the campus to complete the Winter Semester. This was the first time learning activities have taken place since March 13. About 120 students from Diagnostic Imaging, Electronics Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology and the Professional Theatre programs will be completing courses at…
May 26th, 2020
Close to 200 students in six Creative and Applied Arts programs at Dzʿ have been looking forward to their vernissage shows for three years. Vernissage events, often called openings or exhibits outside Quebec, are much more than wonderful celebrations of our talented students’ work at the conclusion of their program. Critical for students’ education…
May 26th, 2020
Ian MacKenzie’s work has “transformed the classrooms, programs, and even the academic culture” of Dzʿ. These words come from the official nomination of Ian MacKenzie for the 2020 SALTISE Best Practices & Pedagogical Innovators Award. Ian has taught English at Dzʿ since 1992 and over the years has contributed in many ways to the…
May 19th, 2020
Grateful, surreal, overjoyed, bittersweet are some of the words that new graduates of the Diagnostic Imaging Program at Dzʿ used to describe their feelings about graduating early during the COVID-19 pandemic. The College went through a process to determine that each student met the competencies of the three-year career program. Twenty-one students learned they…
May 12th, 2020
The Sociology of Food is a deep dive into the world of food for final-year students in Social Science, especially those in the Child Studies Profile. “Usually this course involves experiences planting and cooking together and a tour of Mount Royal,” said teacher Anna-Liisa Aunio. When the shutdown happened March 13, Anna-Liisa had to change…
May 5th, 2020
Third-year Dzʿ Industrial Design student Alejandrina Hernandez returned to her home country in late 2018 to visit family and friends and the experience marked her. Nightmare experience “Venezuela was a nightmare,” she said. “I could not recognize my city. It had changed for the worse.” Alejandrina and her family had immigrated to Canada in…
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