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Concordia in the news
Posted on February 10, 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:
- An online France24 article about writer Assia Djebar mentions that she received an honorary doctorate from Concordia in 2002. Djebar died last Friday in Paris at age 78.
- Concordia is mentioned in an article in Noticias Montreal about Quebec's immigration rules on French-language proficiency and the resulting difficulties English-language universities have reported recruiting talent from abroad. The article is published in Spanish. An earlier Canadian Press article on the same subject, quoting assistant professor of journalism Stanton Paddock and assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies Emer O'Toole, is reprised by The Chronicle Journal. A Montreal Gazette news brief on the subject, reprised by The Vancouver Sun, also mentions Concordia, as does a news brief in Academica.
- Concordia's sustainable investment fund is mentioned in a Global News Montreal report about faculty members at McGill calling for divestment from fossil fuels. An article in Le Devoir on the same subject quotes Divest Concordia member Anthony Garoufalis-Auger.
- Concordia's sustainable investment fund is mentioned also in an opinion piece in the Trent University newspaperArthur accusing the Trent Board of Governors of not doing enough for fossil fuel divestment.
- The McGill Daily writes about the creation of the Concordia Warriors-Óglaigh Ollscoile club, the first university Gaelic games club in Canada. Club founder Daithí Mac Fhlaithimh, a visiting scholar at the School of Canadian Irish Studies, is quoted.