Open House. Homa Hoodfar. In need of repair. Top MBAs. CIEL! Art therapy degree. Canada Education Fair. Early childhood education.

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

• Le Devoir writes about Concordia's annual Open House, being held this year on Saturday, October 29. The article, which states that Concordia has come of age and has developed into one of Quebec's great universities, quotes Graham Carr, provost and vice-president, academic affairs.
• Homa Hoodfar was interviewed for The Guardian (reprised by Dispute.press, News Inn and ReadBing India) about her imprisonment in Iran; a blogger on Iran Watch Canada references and links to an interview with Homa Hoodfar, last Thursday, on CBC radio's The Current; CBC.ca reports that Canadian supporters pushing for the release of Hyeon Soo Lim, a Canadian pastor now serving a life sentence in a North Korean prison, point to Canada's diplomatic success in obtaining the release of Homa Hoodfar in Iran and Kevin Garrett in China; The Christian Times also mentions the Hoodfar case in a report on Hyeon Soo Lim; an article in The Toronto Star featuring Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, mentions Taylor's recent call on Ottawa to lobby Iran for Hoodfar's release; Hoodfar's detention is mentioned in a piece in Iran News Update about American chess master Nazi Paikidze’s plan to boycott the Women’s World Chess Championship next February in Iran in protest over that country's enforcement of the wearing of the hijab; Hoodfar's release is mentioned again in a report from Channel News Asia on a call from a U.N. human rights investigator for the immediate release of three Iranian dual nationals still being held by Iran.
• MMC News reprises an earlier CBC.ca story about the critical state of disrepair of certain Quebec universities, including Concordia, McGill and Université de Montréal.
• Meilleurs Masters (Morocco), rating the world's top business masters degrees, places the John Molson School of Business in 13th position in the category, "Executive MBA and MBA part time."
• Fabula writes about the 22nd Colloque interuniversitaire étudiant de littérature CIEL, which it reports is co-organized by the French literature and French studies departments of Concordia, McGill, Université de Montréal and UQAM. The event will take place March 17, 2017, at McGill.
• An article in L'Écho Abitibien profiling the president of the Association des art-thérapeutes du Québec (AATQ), Murielle Angers, notes that Concordia is one of only two universities in Quebec offering an art therapy degree. 
• Concordia is listed by Bao Moi, Da Nang Today, Vietnam Plus and Le Courrier du Vietnam among the participants in the 2016 Canada Education Fairs in Vietnam next week. The event is hosted by the Consulate General of Canada in Ho Chi Minh City, in cooperation with the Embassy of Canada in Hanoi.
• The early childhood education programs of several Canadian universities, including Concordia, are described in a release in 0168.cc (in Chinese).

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