Concordia help for Syrian refugees. The Economist: best MBAs. Governor General's Literary Awards.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 20, 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:
- President Alan Shepard is cited in a Radio-Canada.ca text story about Canadian university initiatives to help Syrian refugees come to Canada to study. The article notes that Concordia, one of three Quebec universities that have announced a refugee-assistance project, will waive tuition fees for two young Syrians in the program of their choice. The absence of Quebec's francophone universities from refugee-assistance programs is also noted.
- The Economist posts a release on its 2015 rankings of the world's best full-time MBA programs, listing the John Molson School of Business MBA 88th. Academica links to the release.
- La Presse correspondent Daniel Lemay, looking at the recently-announced candidates for this year's Governor General's Literary Awards through the prism of federal election campaign politics, mentions that finalist Anita Arnand, author of Swing in the House, is also short-listed for the Quebec Writers' Federation's Concordia University First Book prize.