Happy 100th! Campus housing. Homa Hoodfar.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 26, 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:
- Last weekend's harvest celebration to mark the 100th anniversary of Concordia's Loyola campus was featured on the CBC Montreal evening television newscast last Saturday. The segment begins at the 10:45-mark.
- A news release announces that U.S.-based Asset Campus Housing, specialized in student housing properties, will take over management of Parc Cité, a 280-bed property serving students attending Concordia and McGill: Market Wired, Digital Journal.
- Daily Hive Vancouver offers a partial examination of student housing at Canadian universities, including Concordia.
- The recent detainment of Homa Hoodfar in Iran is referenced in a piece from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran calling on Iranian authorities to release Iranian-American dual citizens Siamak Namazi and his father, Bagher Namazi. The Hoodfar case is mentioned also in an AlJazeera.com report on Iran's sentencing of Iranian-American Robin Shahini to 18 years in prison for "collaboration with a hostile government."