Quebec immigration rules. Van Berkom gift. Feist remembered. Djebar remembered. Singh on austerity.
Concordia in the news
Posted on February 9, 2015
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- Assistant professor of journalism Stanton Paddock and assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies Emer O'Toole are mentioned in a Canadian Press article about Quebec's immigration rules on French-language proficiency. The article highlights the difficulties the language rules represent for English-language universities attempting to recruit talent from abroad. The article is published by La Presse, Le Devoir, Radio Canada, Journal Métro, 985fm.ca, Yahoo, The Montreal Gazette, Global News Montreal, CBC.ca, Blackburn News, The Observer, HR Reporter, CJME radio, CTVnews.ca, CJAD.com the Ottawa Star and the Times Colonist.
- Academica picks up an earlier release announcing a $1 million donation from alumnus J. Sebastian van Berkom to establish the Van Berkom Small-Cap Investment Management Program at JMSB. The program will provide money to selected MBA, doctoral, MSc Finance and CFA students who will act as fund managers running actual stock portfolios. J. Sebastian van Berkom, President Alan Shepard and JMSB dean Steve Harvey are quoted.
- The late Daniel Feist, who was a part-time teacher in the Department of Music and the Department of Communication Studies, is mentioned at length in an opinion piece in The Gazette that calls for more stringent tobacco regulations. Feist, who was a smoker, died of cancer ten years ago this week.
- Le Devoir writes that author and filmmaker Assia Djebar died last Friday in Paris at age 78. It mentions that Djebar, born Fatma-Zohra Imalayène, received an honorary doctorate from Concordia in 2002. The article is reprised by sisyphe.org.
- The McGill Daily writes about a talk by social activist Jaggi Singh in the CSU lounge last Wednesday about the Quebec government's austerity measures. It mentions that the event was part of Solidarity Concordia's week-long teach-in on the austerity policies.