Embrace innovation. Fossil fuel divestment.

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 speaks with a reporter at Les Affaires about the need for universities to adapt to meet the challenges of an employment market in flux. He challenges other universities to take their cue from Concordia, and open doors to innovation. The article continues with a profile of Concordia's District 3 Innovation Centre, which lends a hand to anyone, whether a Concordia student or not, who has a good idea for a business start-up. Shepard concludes that universities now must prepare their students to create their own jobs.
• The Canadian Press posts a story that ran earlier this month 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.

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