Collège Lionel-Groulx
| Collège Lionel-Groulx | |
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100, rue Duquet , Québec Canada | |
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| Established | 1967 |
| Language | French |
| Website | www |
Collège Lionel-Groulx is a general and professional education college (CEGEP) located in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, Canada. This college has around 6,000 students in regular training and around 2,000 in continuing education.
Founding
[edit]The College was established on September 14, 1967 and named in honor of the Quebec historian, Canon Lionel Groulx, former student of the Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse. Its foundation comes from the Sainte-Rose Business School, the Saint-Jérôme Normal School and the Seminary of Sainte-Thérèse. The first three programs to be authorized are computer science, administrative techniques and documentation techniques. In 1969, the College acquired all the movable and immovable property of Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse.
The College's main facility occupies 1.8 million square feet of land. The College also has a sports center, a building complex made up of traditional residences and apartments capable of accommodating 280 students, a computer pavilion, as well as a college technology transfer center (college center for technology transfer). innovation in microelectronics from Quebec), a theater pavilion, a music pavilion, a science pavilion, a performance hall, an agricultural training center and horticulture greenhouses in Mirabel.
History
[edit]On October 8, 1968, a strike began for the first time in a CEGEP. This event will act as the spearhead of the student mobilizations of October 1968.
General directors
[edit]- Charles Valois (1967-1973)
- Desgroseilliers Pierre (1973-1978)
- Nicole Brodeur (1978-1981)
- Jean Ladouceur (1981-1984)
- André Turcotte (1987-1991)
- Marie-Hélène Desrosiers (1991-1995)
- Francine Sénecal (1995-2002)
- Monique Laurin (2002-2013)
- Michel-Louis Beauchamp (2013-2023)
- Philippe Nasr (2023- )
Notable teachers
[edit]- André G. Bourassa
- Élie Fallu
- Jean-Claude St-Onge
- Johanne Fontaine
- Suzanne Garceau
- Marie-France Marcotte
- Catherine Bégin
- Luc Bourgeois
- Daniel Paquette
- Alice Ronfard
- Frédéric Dubois
- Claude Poissant
- France Boisvert
- Agnès Grimaud
Notable alumni
[edit]- Normand Brathwaite
- Patrice L'Écuyer
- Pauline Martin
- Les Denis Drolet
- Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc
- France D'Amour
- Geneviève Néron
- Mélanie Pilon
- Charline Labonté
- Jacques Nantel
- Marie-Chantal Perron
- Martin Laroche
- Marianne Moisan
- Guy Jodoin
- Francis Ducharme
- Sophie Desmarais
- Francis Reddy
- Frédérique Dufort
Student association
[edit]The Association générale des étudiantes et étudiants du Collège Lionel-Groulx (AGEECLG) is the student association of the student community of Collège Lionel-Groulx. This association is a member of Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ).
Athletics
[edit]The Collège Lionel-Groulx sports teams are named “Les Nordiques”.
