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Concordia in the news
Posted on February 11, 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:
- The JMSB ranks tenth in a best-masters.com ranking of the 40 best North American university masters programs in marketing.
- Concordia's sustainable investment fund, announced last fall, is mentioned in news reports about faculty at the University of British Columbia voting in favour of a motion that urges UBC's board of governors to divest of fossil fuel stocks within the next five years. News stories of the vote at UBC are picked up by The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Observer, The Province, The Prince George Citizen, The Globe and Mail, Times Colonist, Northern View, The Townsman, CTVNews.ca, GlobalNews.ca and BC Local News. Academica also mentions Concordia in a news brief on the UBC faculty vote.
- The Montreal Gazette reports on the decision by St. Mary's Hospital to suspend its psychology internship program next year. It mentions that the program involves PhD psychology students at four Quebec universities, including Concordia, who do unpaid internships at the hospital.
- Concordia appears in a Carleton University news service listing of universities that will send teams from their business schools to Carleton for next Sunday's (February 15) Network of International Business Schools (NIBS) Worldwide Case Competition.
- Le Devoir writes about Concordia's FOFA Gallery and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, as examples of "satellite" art galleries. The "Sightings" cube in the Hall Building is discussed at length. Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery director Michèle Thériault, gallery curator Mélanie Rainville and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Studio Arts, Ed Pien are quoted. (See attached PDF.)