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.
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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”.