Alleged cheaters. Dealing with sex assault. TD gift. Homa Hoodfar. Infastructure budgets. Management leadership certification.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 24, 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:
- Numerous media pick up a story that broke last Friday in La Presse + about criminal charges, including conspiracy and impersonation, that have been brought against a student and a tutor in a case of alleged cheating on an exam at Concordia: CBC.ca (reprised by Canada Standard), Montreal Gazette (reprised by the Ottawa Citizen), Gazette e-edition, CTV News Montreal (video and text) and TVA Salut Bonjour. Vice-provost Catherine Bolton and two Concordia students are quoted in the CTV News story and university spokesperson Cléa Desjardins is cited in other news coverage.
- CBC.ca posts a story, reprised by Yahoo! News, that examines Concordia's new policy on sexual assault allegations at the university. It notes that the approach adopted last spring is aimed at streamlining the process for alleged victims of on-campus assault of looking for resources. The article includes quotes from Jennifer Drummond, cordinator of Concordia's Sexual Assault Resource Center, and Gabrielle Bouchard, an action coordinator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy at Concordia.
- A news brief in Les Libraires reports the recently announced $600,000 gift from TD Bank Group to Concordia, half of which will go to support ABRACADABRA — the interactive, early literacy web-based tool created by the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance in support of beginning readers. The other $300,000 is for JMSB's Sustainable Internship Program.
- The recent detainment of Homa Hoodfar in Iran is referenced in an article in Excalibur about attacks on academic freedom. The Hoodfar case is mentioned also in a news brief in Tehran Times quoting an official in the Iranian judiciary who denies any link between Hoodfar's detainment and the case of an accused embezzler, Mohammad-Reza Khavari, now living in Canada and sought by Iran for trial. It had been speculated that Iran had hoped to trade Hoodfar for Khavari's extradition.
- University spokesperson Chris Mota is quoted in an article in the Université de Montréal student paper Quartier Libre about infrastructure budget shortfalls at Quebec universities.
- Journal Métro writes about the Institute of Leadership in Management's certification program in management leadership and skills, offered jointly by the Institute and the John Molson School of Business.