The value of the BA: Alan Shepard opinion. Homa Hoodfar. Video game hub. Summit on Innovation. Management leadership.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 20, 2016
University affairs
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 writes an op-ed in the Montreal Gazette, where he challenges the perception that the university degree, particularly the Bachelor of Arts, is of increasingly limited value, in terms of future career prospects and revenue. He writes about the intrinsic value of education and about universities fostering a sense of community engagement.
- CdnPoli reprises an opinion piece by Geneviève Rail, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, originally published in La Presse + on Friday, September 16. Rail issues an appeal for people to join the international call for the release from Iran's Evin prison of Homa Hoodfar; TV5Monde.com runs a piece whose author calls for a wider mobilization for Hoodfar's release; The Associated Press and The Canadian Press, writing about the sentencing to a ten-year prison term in Iran of Lebanese-American Nizar Zakka, references the Homa Hoodfar case. The reports are picked up by The Guardian (UK), Haaretz, CTVnews.ca, Halifax Herald News, CBS North Carolina, ABC News Go, Wand TV, The Daily Star, News2.net, The Southern Illinoisan, Hindustan Times, NewsMax.
- Area Development credits what it terms "the massive gaming specialty of Concordia University" for the rise of a video-game hub in downtown Montreal.
- A CNW/Telbec release announcing the sixth edition of the Montreal Summit on Innovation states that the event is an initiative of the Quartier de l'innovation (QI) and lists Concordia among the institutional and corporate partners that have joined the QI since its creation in 2013. The release is picked up by Le Lézard.
- LaPresse.ca publishes sponsored content about the Institute of Leadership in Management and its certification program in management leadership and skills, offered jointly by the Institute and the John Molson School of Business. There are two articles. Read the first and the second.