Concordia: profile. About District 3. Jeri Brown: tribute. Gender-neutral WC. Sustainable investment.

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 publishes a piece profiling Concordia. Benoit-Antoine Bacon, provost and vice-president of academic affairs, and Roger Côté, vice president of services, are quoted throughout. The piece focuses on Concordia not only as a place to study and do research but also as a place to work and notes in an inset toward the right side of the page that Concordia has been named one of Montreal's top employers, as determined in an annual competition organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. The Gazette article was produced by Postmedia Works on behalf of Concordia. It is reprised byReportCA.net and MyWebMemo.
• Huffington Post lists Concordia's District 3 Innovation Centre among business incubators and start-up hubs in Montreal. The custom-fit earphone manufacturer Revols is mentioned among District 3's recent successes.
• The Montreal Gazette announces 'Feed Your Head: Black Muses', an exhibition that pays tribute to 12 woman who have marked the history of Canadian music. Among them is jazz singer Jeri Brown, an associate professor in the Department of Music. The exhibition opens tomorrow and runs through runs February 28, at the Espace culturel Georges-Émile Lapalme at Place des Arts. Admission is free.
• News reports appear on CTV Montreal (video and text), CBC.ca and in Le Devoir about the introduction of gender-neutral bathrooms at Vanier College. The reports state that gender-neutral bathrooms already exist at Concordia, McGill and Dawson College. Le Devoir notes that such bathrooms have also been introduced at Université de Montréal.
• CTVnews.ca, The Province, Times Colonist, Metro News Vancouver, Bay Today, Blackburn News, Barrie Today, Castanet and My Web Memo, pick up a story about the rejection by the University of British Columbia's finance committee of a fossil fuel divestment proposal. It's mentioned that Concordia was the first university in Canada to adopt a divestment policy in December 2014 and that the Concordia divestment was applied to a $5-million fund within the university's endowment.

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