| Collège Lionel-Groulx | |
| Established: | 1967 |
| City: | Sainte-Thérèse |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | French |
| Address: | 100, rue Duquet |
| State: | Québec |
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.
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.
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.
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).
The Collège Lionel-Groulx sports teams are named “Les Nordiques”.