Homa Hoodfar. Concordia, en français. Psycholinguistics postdoc. The cost of back-to-school.

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

• The National Council of Resistance of Iran writes about a recent speech by Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, who condemned continuing human rights violations in Iran, including the detention of political prisoners, like Homa Hoodfar, and the executions of numerous prisoners Iran deems enemies. Hoodfar's arrest in Iran, in  early June, is mentioned also in an article in The New York Times about the arrest by Iran of a person close to the government team that negotiated its nuclear agreement with foreign powers.
• Radio-Canada.ca (reprised by Huffington Post Québec) reports on the choice being made my many francophone Quebecers to study in English when they leave high school. It quotes former Concordia student Heidi Bates, who says English-language CEGEPs and universities work actively to help francophones integrate. It reports that 23 percent of Concordia students claim French as their mother tongue and quotes Concordia spokesperson Chris Mota, who says that students are attracted more by Concordia's programs than by its language.
• The New York University Department of Linguistics reports that Linmin Zhang has accepted a post-doctoral position in the Psycholinguistics and Cognition Lab at Concordia.
• The Montreal Gazette publishes a piece about the cost of going back-to-school. In a chart on the costs of university, Concordia is used as an example.

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