Homa Hoodfar. Franchising studies. Corridart incident.

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

• Numerous media report that Homa Hoodfar, held in Iran's Evin prison since early June, has been hospitalized with what her family describes as "rapidly declining health". Family members have released a statement saying they have been informed by Iranian officials that Hoodfar is struggling to walk and talk. Hoodfar had been charged with collaborating against national security and of propaganda against the state: Radio-Canada.ca CBC.ca, CTVNews.ca, Montreal Gazette, CJAD.com, Le Journal de Montréal, MCS.com, Canada News, France News, App News, CDNpoli.net and ReportCA.net. Other media have picked up a Canadian Press story about Hoodfar's hospitalization: The Montreal Gazette.
• In other coverage: Foreign Policy, reprised by Yahoo! News, writes about Hoodfar's detention by Iran's Revolutionary Guard and what it means to Iranian women; Hoodfar's detention is mentioned in articles in The Tower and CriticalThreats.org about the arrest by Iran of a person close to the government team that negotiated its nuclear agreement with foreign powers.
• Le Devoir reports that Concordia and HEC Montréal were approached about the idea of introducing a program of studies geared specifically to the needs and interests of individuals and companies in the business franchising sector. University spokesperson Chris Mota is quoted.
• A review the National Post (reprised by Newscaf) of the John McFetridge book One or the Other  includes a reference to an actual incident involving the destruction, by City of Montreal officials, of sixty works of art that had been placed on the street as part of the Corridart exhibition in 1976. It includes a mention of a retrospective exhibition hosted by Concordia in 2001 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Corridart incident.

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