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

• Concordia's new open-access University Press is featured in the Montreal Gazette and the Gazette's e-edition. It announces that the open-access press, the first at a university in Quebec, has begun accepting submissions for scholarly book proposals. The article includes a picture of Concordia librarian Guylaine Beaudry and Concordia University Press editor-in-chief Geoffrey Little. Beaudry and Little are quoted, as are provost Graham Carr and Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association president David Douglas. Latest Canada and Brazil Business Today post links to the Gazette article.
• Maclean's writes about Concordia's Student Success Centre in an article focusing on part-time university study. It quotes Student Success Centre director Laura Mitchell and recent linguistic master's graduate Camila Matamoros (pdf attached: "The part-time conundrum").
• The Concordia Greenhouse is mentioned in a Maclean's piece about rooftop gardens (pdf attached: "Up on the Farm").
• The Montreal Gazette writes about two recent charity events at Concordia it says established records for student aid at the university: the 20th Concordia used-book fair, which raised a record $16,414 for student scholarships and aid, and last month's Concordia Shuffle, whose more-than-600 participants walked, ran and cycled to raise another $84-thousand. Two Concordia staffers, Janine Lavallée and Louise Morgan, with the Advancement and External Relations office, are pictured at the Shuffle finish line. The story appears also in the Gazette's e-edition and is linked to by World News Report.
• An article in La Presse + and LaPresse.ca about the refusal by a professor at the University of Toronto to use gender-neutral pronouns in the presence of transgender people reports that Concordia has adopted a policy of allowing the use, in certain circumstances, of first names other than those appearing on a person's birth certificate.
• Iran's recent detainment of Homa Hodfar is mentioned in two articles from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. The first concerns the 18-year prison sentence Iran has handed Iranian-American dual citizen Reza Shahini. The second focuses on two British-Iranian dual citizens — Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Roya Saberinejad Nobakht — currently imprisoned in Iran. 
• The Globe and Mail reports on the work of the Quartier de L'Innovation (QI) on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship and mentions QI's partnership with Concordia, McGill, ÉTS and UQAM.
• Arondissement posts a call from Concordia for candidates interested in competing for a tenure track position for a professor of sculpture in the Faculty of Fine Arts. 

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