Father John O'Brien remembered. Museum partnership. University innovation. Accounting for accountability. Partners in philanthropy.

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

• The Montreal Gazette's e-edition and MSN News reprise the Gazette's article on the legacy of Distinguished Professor Emeritus the late Father John O'Brien, who passed away on November 7, 2015 at the age of 91. O'Brien is the Jesuit priest and alumnus who founded the Department of Communication Arts at Loyola College, which became Concordia's Department of Communication Studies. 
• The e-edition of the Montreal Gazette and LaPresse.ca reprise earlier articles on Concordia's partnership with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) to develop a museum-based educational and art therapy complex. It reports that Concordia professors are participating in the development of new courses and public programs that will be offered through the Michel de La Chenelière International Atelier for Education and Art Therapy, at the MMFA. Rebecca Duclos, dean of Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts, and Josée Leclerc, director of Concordia’s art therapy program, are quoted in the Gazette piece. Additionally, the Concordia announcement of the partnership is picked up by AMEQ en ligne.  
• La Presse + and Les Affaires publish a piece about new university programs in Montreal focused on innovation, and includes a new program of studies that combines surgery, engineering and business. The program, resulting from a partnership between Concordia, École de technologie supérieure and McGill, is designed to favour high tech business startups in the medical field.
• Le Journal de Montréal, TVAnouvelles.ca, 24h Montréal and Canoe pick up an Agence QMI article in which the Coalition Avenir Québec party takes issue with what it says is the waste of money in the post-secondary education sector involved in writing accountability reports the party contends are never read by education ministry officials. The report states that Concordia, UQAM, Université de Montréal and Université Laval together spend $3.2 million annually on the preparation of accountability reports — money it says would be better spent on filling teaching positions at those universities.
• A CNW/Telbec release about the Sommet 2015 sur la culture philanthropique, hosted by the Institut Mallet, earlier this week, lists Concordia among the institute's partners in philanthropy.

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