Mohawk College

Mohawk College

Canada

Mohawk College was established during the formation of Ontario’s college system in 1966. The school was founded in 1967 as part of a provincial initiative to create many such institutions to provide career-oriented advanced diploma, diploma, and certificate courses, as well as continuing education programs to Ontario communities.

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Mohawk has received three national Yves Landry Foundation awards. The Mohawk and McMaster University Bachelor of Technology Partnership was recognized with the Yves Landry 2006 Innovative Manufacturing Technology Program Award: University Level. Yves Landry Awards were also presented to Mohawk's Modern Foundry Technologies Institute in 2001 and its Integrated Technician Apprenticeship Program in 2004.

Colleges Ontario recognized The Hydro One–College Consortium with the 2008 Community/Corporate Partnership Award. For the first time in Ontario, four community colleges (Mohawk, Algonquin, Georgian and Northern Colleges) are working collaboratively with a provincial employer on an innovative and proactive workforce training and development solution to replace the 30% of Hydro One's highly skilled workforce who will retire within the next five years.

Mohawk Advertising students have won more than 30 national Canadian Marketing Association awards and have won gold in the student creative category for seven consecutive years.

Every year, Mohawk celebrates the career achievements and community contributions of outstanding alumni. Mohawk Alumni of Distinction recipients are nominated by the college for Premier's Awards.

In 2007, Mohawk Vice President Academic (retired) Rosemary Knechtel received the Association of Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology of Ontario (now Colleges Ontario) Distinguished Service Award.

In 2008, Mohawk early childhood education graduate Debbie Crickmore and ECE professor Karyn Callaghan received YWCA Hamilton Women of Distinction Awards.

In 2011, Journalism Print & Broadcast along with Broadcasting – Television and Communications Media won a national award from the Broadcast Educators Association of Canada for Best Studio Newscast. The episode of Ignite News that won was created entirely by 2nd-year students in the graduating class of 2012.

The award was accepted by Owen Thomas, representing the journalism program, and Thomas Raike representing the television program.

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