Open House 2015. Étudier au Québec. Canada Education Fair. Christopher Jackson remembered.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 13, 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:
- Le Devoir writes about Concordia's Open House 2015, set for November 9. The article mentions the Webster Library transformation project and includes a picture of the library. It also mentions the Grey Nuns chapel and other renovation and building projects, as well as campus tours scheduled to take place that day. Provost and Vice-President Benoit-Antoine Bacon is quoted throughout.
- Concordia is mentioned in a separate article in Le Devoir about the wide array of university institutions in Quebec.
- A release from Cap Campus announcing Étudier au Québec, an international studies fair, includes Concordia among the 13 Quebec universities participating in the event in Paris, October 16 and 17.
- An online publication of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Tuoitrenews.vn name Concordia among the universities participating in next weekend's Canada Education Fairs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
- The Main, writing about plans by the Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) to give transit users Wi-Fi access on the metro's orange line, mentions Concordia's Opus transit pass project, which allows students to electronically transfer requests to the STM for reduced-fare OPUS transit pass.
- La Scena Musicale publishes a brief about the passing of Christopher Jackson, artistic director of the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM) and former dean of and professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts.