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Concordia in the news
Posted on October 22, 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:
- Noticias Montreal (in Spanish) reports that Concordia's MBA program was listed fifth in Canada in Canadian Business Magazine's 2016 rankings of the best MBAs in the country.
- A Nightlife.ca newsbrief on the recently-published Corporate Knights 2015 Better World MBA rankings notes that the John Molson School of Business program is listed 12th out of 121 MBAs rated worldwide.
- Radio Canada International's English-language and French-language websites report the establishment ofAcademics Without Borders (AWB) at Concordia. The Concordia AWB office will work to further encourage the participation of the university's researchers, faculty, students and staff in the NGO's projects around the world. The English-language version of the RCI story includes an audio file of an interview with AWB founder and executive director Steven Davis. Listen to the interview. The story also appears in The Suburban, which quotes president Alan Shepard, TVAnouvelles.ca, where Shepard is quoted and pictured, and in AMEQ en ligne(behind a paywall).
- Les Affaires reports on Concordia's partnership with the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) and McGill on a new program of studies that combines surgery, engineering and business. It states that the program, designed to favour high tech business startups in the medical field, currently involves some 20 business students at the John Molson School of Business, engineering students at the ÉTS and medical students at McGill.
- Early Music Vancouver's artistic director Matthew White, interviewed for a CBC Music blog, mentions that the Vancouver early music ensemble's performance of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, tomorrow in Vancouver, will be dedicated to musician and conductor, the late Christopher Jackson, noted as artistic director of the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM) and former dean of and professor in Concordia's Faculty of Fine Arts. Jackson died September 25, 2015, at the age of 67.
