Homa Hoodfar speaks. The value of university. The cost of universities.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 6, 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:
- Homa Hoodfar has begun to grant interviews about her recent incarceration in Iran, beginning with CBC News, whose interview with Hoodfar was featured on CBC's The National, starting at the 35:55-mark. Watch the entire interview here. The uncut interview is also posted by MSN. The interview was also spotlighted on the CBC Montreal television newscast last night (at the 8:30-mark). The CBC interview is reprised or referenced in numerous other media: LaPresse.ca, 24News.ca, 24 heures en bref, EnManchette.ca, Québec News, News Alberta, France News, WN World News, MagZelle, Newstral, Canada News, CdnPoli, Super Live Canada News. Bulldog Canadian, Top n Tom, Sports and Politics. She was also interviewed for CBC radio's The Current, Radio Canada's Médium Large (link to be posted later), Radio Canada télé and Le Devoir.
- Please note: Hoodfar gave several other interviews that will be covered in tomorrow's Media Review.
- In related coverage of the Homa Hoodfar case: CimacNoticias (in Spanish) joins worldwide coverage of Hoodfar's release; The Toronto Sun references Hoodfar's detention in an article about the plight of Iranian-born Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour, held in Iran on what his family says is a false charge of distributing pornography; Hoodfar's imprisonment is also mentioned in an article in Stop Fundamentalism (reprised by Iran Focus and the National Council of Resistance of Iran) about the eleven-year internment in Iran of human rights activist Mostafa Naderi, who was released in 1992; The Toronto Star and Christian Today report on the case of Hyeon Soo Lim, a Canadian pastor now serving a life sentence in a North Korean prison, and also mentions the Hoodfar case; Hoodfar's release is referenced in an article in Iran News Update about a UN report that urges international attention to ongoing human rights violations in Iran.
- In other university affairs:
- The Montreal Gazette, writing about university underfunding in Quebec, quotes President Alan Shepard saying that people need to understand the vital and fundamental role universities play in the Quebec ecosystem.
- Concordia is mentioned in a Radio Canada Téléjournal report on the critical state of disrepair of certain Quebec universities. The mention of Concordia, toward the end of the report, comes as a picture from the Loyola campus appears on screen. CBC.ca posts a text version of the story (reprised by Canada Standard and Canada News) according to which more than 60 per cent of the buildings at Concordia and Université de Montréal are in need of urgent renovations.