Entrepreneur-in-residence. Aboriginal grads. Retiring jazz master. Never forget.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• Digital Signage Today publishes a news brief about the appointment of Greg Adelstein, founder of digital signage developer iGotcha Media, as the first-ever entrepreneur-in-residence at the John Molson School of Business. Adelstein is a Concordia alumnus, with a graduate diploma in sports administration. His lecture and mentoring services are retained through funding from the National Bank Initiative in Entrepreneurship and Family Business. 
• The Eastern Door (Kahnawake) publishes an article about Aboriginal Concordia graduates who received their degrees at the recent spring convocation and mentions an earlier event to mark the graduation of 16 Aboriginal students. The article also reports that journalist and political activist Kenneth Deer, the current Secretary of the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake, was one of six honorary doctorate recipients at the spring convocation.
• An article in Voir about the anticipated retirement of Montreal Jazz luminary Vic Vogel as artistic director of the Jazz Big Band mentions that Vogel is a recipient of an honorary degree from Concordia (2010).
• Associate librarian Geoffrey Little posts a call, on H Net, for chapters for an edited volume relating to the “Memory and Commemoration” symposium on anti-semitism and the Holocaust, held in Montreal last winter. Little writes that the volume will be published by Concordia University Press, next year.

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