TAV College
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| Type | Private CÉGEP[2] |
| Established | 1989 |
| Founder | Abraham Boyarsky[3] |
| Director | Elazar Meroz[4] |
| Address | 6333 Décarie Boulevard , Montreal , Quebec , H3W 3E1 , Canada |
| Language | English, French |
| Website | tav |
TAV College (French: Collège TAV) is a not-for-profit private[5] CÉGEP in the Snowdon neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec.
History
[edit]The Torah and Technology School was founded in 1989, with the aim of providing vocational training to members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. It was later renamed the Torah and Vocational (TAV) Institute.[6] TAV received government funding via an affiliation with the public CÉGEP Collège Marie-Victorin,[3] through which students could obtain a Diploma of College Studies or Attestation of College Studies certificate.[7]
In 1999, TAV signed a three-year[8] agreement with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), under which students at TAV could earn university credits.[9] The partnership ended the following year due to objections from UQAM's professors' union that some courses at TAV were gender-segregated and taught in English.[10][11] TAV launched a lawsuit against UQAM for $8.1 million in damages.[12][13]
Quebec's Ministry of Education and Higher Education cut the institute's funding in 2009 by ending its partnership with Collège Marie-Victorin, on the grounds that TAV didn't offer classes on Jewish holidays and that some classes were gender-segregated.[14][15] TAV was accredited as an independent, private CÉGEP by the Ministry in 2010, and renamed the Technology and Vocational (TAV) College.[16][17]
TAV College introduced a Grade 12 program in 2022 in response to Bill 96, which introduced caps on how many students could be admitted to English-language CÉGEPs.[18][19]
References
[edit]- ^ "À propos". Collège Décarie. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
- ^ Arnold, Janice (April 22, 2013). "TAV to more than double in size". The Canadian Jewish News. Archived from the original on January 28, 2024.
- ^ a b Arnold, Janice (March 28, 2012). "TAV working to help chassidic students go to college". The Canadian Jewish News. Archived from the original on March 31, 2024.
- ^ "Letter from the Director". TAV College. Archived from the original on February 11, 2024.
- ^ "About TAV College, Montreal". TAV College. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
- ^ "Mission Statement and History". TAV Institute. Archived from the original on August 7, 2003.
- ^ Weinstein Sepinwall, Sharyn (2002). Women of Valour: Literacy as the Creation of Personal Meaning in the Lives of a Select Group of Hassidic Women in Quebec (PDF) (PhD thesis). Faculty of Education, McGill University.
- ^ Swoger, Kate (April 19, 2000). "UQÀM cancels Hasidic program". The Gazette. Montreal. p. A5.
- ^ Sweet, Doug (April 20, 1999). "Bridging two solitudes: UQAM teams up with Jewish school in Côte des Neiges". The Gazette. Montreal. p. A5.
- ^ Swoger, Kate (April 6, 2000). "UQÀM Strife: Hasidic students may lose program". The Gazette. Montreal. pp. A1–A2.
- ^ "Jewish groups disappointed with university decision". CBC News. April 19, 2000.
- ^ Chouinard, Marie-Andrée (March 22, 2001). "Une organisation juive poursuit l'UQAM pour 8,1 millions". Le Devoir (in French). Vol. 92, no. 62. Montreal. pp. 1, 8.
- ^ Waller, Harold M. (2002). American Jewish Year Book. Vol. 102. American Jewish Committee. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-87495-117-2. JSTOR 23604544.
- ^ "Orthodox Jewish colleges lose Quebec funding". CBC News. December 8, 2009.
- ^ "Faith-based, single-sex". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. December 10, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2024.
- ^ "About". TAV College. Archived from the original on March 27, 2024.
- ^ Hand-Gregory, Justin (October 11, 2019). "TAV Turned 30 in 2019". The TAV Times. Archived from the original on June 10, 2020.
- ^ "Montreal schools offering Grade 12 as work-around due to Bill 96 caps in English CEGEPs". CTV News. Archived from the original on December 5, 2023.
- ^ "Montreal's TAV College Launches a Grade 12 Program: A First of Its Kind in a College Environment". The Suburban. Montreal. March 24, 2022. Archived from the original on January 20, 2024.