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Collège Lionel-Groulx

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Collège Lionel-Groulx
Address
Map
100, rue Duquet

,
Québec

Canada
Information
Established1967
LanguageFrench
Websitewww.clg.qc.ca

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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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Notable alumni

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Student association

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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

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The Collège Lionel-Groulx sports teams are named “Les Nordiques”.

See also

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