Scholarships for Syrians. Fall on Your Knees. Library forum. Incubators.

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

• Concordia's decision, announced in October, to waive tuition fees for two Syrian refugees, is mentioned in an article in The Toronto Star about Montrealer Hazar Mahayni, principal at Turkey's Al Salam school for Syrian refugee children. Concordia has since announced it is sponsoring at least another four Syrian students. The article also mentions the Concordia Syrian Student Association's Friday bake sales in support of Al Salam school. 
• CBC.ca posts a story announcing that the novel Fall on Your Knees (1996), by Mordecai Richler writer-in-residence Ann-Marie MacDonald, will be adapted into a four-part CBC miniseries. The article includes a link to a video of Macdonald settling into the Mordecai Richler Reading Room, in the J. W. McConnell Building.
• The Quebec Library Association publishes a call for proposals for Concordia University Libraries' 14th Annual Research Forum, scheduled for Friday, April 29th, 2016, at the Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre. The release mentions that the keynote speaker at the event will be Steven High, a professor in the Department of History, Canada Research Chair in oral history and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
• An article on Radio-Canada.ca about a Quebec government contribution to an entrepreneurship centre at Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) mentions that Concordia is one of three other Quebec universities that boast business incubators. The District 3 Innovation Centre is not named in the article but is referenced in a Quebec government release on the UQAR incubator, picked up by AMEQ en ligne.

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