International Political Science Association: front and centre. Students for Syrian refugees. Transgender accommodation. Discretionary taxpayer generosity

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

• Le Devoir publishes a series of articles about the International Political Science Association (IPSA), based at Concordia: the first article features Guy Lachapelle, professor in the Department of Political Science and the elected secretary-general of IPSA; the second article looks at the benefits to Concordia, its political science department and to Montreal as a whole of having IPSA at the university. Graham Carr, vice-president, Research and Graduate Studies, is quoted and the presence at Concordia of another international organization, the U.N.'s Future Earth secretariat, is mentioned; the third article previews a conference, set for March 30, to mark the tenth anniversary of IPSA at Concordia. Lachapelle is again quoted and the participation is announced of American political scientist Ronald Inglehart as a key speaker at the event.
• Inside Halton, writing about the work of a group of McGill students to prepare Syrian refugees for enrollment in Canadian universities, quotes one of the students saying that the group drew inspiration from Concordia's initiative to provide six Syrian refugees with scholarships. The article mentions also that one of the Syrians being helped by the McGill students, Mohammed Sarhan, plans to enroll at Concordia to study computer engineering.
• La Presse + repeats a lapresse.ca article about efforts by the Commission Scolaire de Montréal to accommodate transgender students. It mentions that Concordia has designated numerous non-gender washrooms on its campuses and gives students the opportunity to change their names in university records to non-gender designations.
• The Suburban lists local organizations that recently received funds from the discretionary budgets of borough councillors of Côte-des-neiges–Notre-dame-de-Grâce, including Concordia’s Centre for the Arts in Human Development for its Public Outreach Program ($250).

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