Collège Lionel-Groulx

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 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 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 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 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 Normand Brathwaite Francis Ducharme 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 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 The Collège Lionel-Groulx sports teams are named “Nordiques”.

Collège Lionel-Groulx

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