Retirement from the court. Future Earth. French proficiency rules.
Concordia in the news
Posted on February 19, 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:
- CBC News reports on the announced retirement of Stingers basketball coach John Dore, who spent 26 seasons with the team, both as player and as coach. He took the Stingers to the national finals 13 times and won the national championship in 1990. Dore appears on-camera in the report and is quoted in the text version of the story.
- Novae writes about Future Earth, the recently-created research secretariat into global sustainability, which will be based in Montreal and whose first Executive Director is Paul Shrivastava, management professor and director of the JMSB's David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise.
- Concordia is mentioned in an article in the Université de Montréal student newspaper Quartier Libre on concerns English-language universities have about the impact of Quebec's French-proficiency immigration rules on their ability to recruit talent from abroad.