Mother House conservation. Online courses for seniors. Better World MBA rankings.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 16, 2017
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) picks up news that the federal government will invest $851,000 in conservation work on the exterior of the downtown mother house of the Grey Nuns of Montreal, purchased by Concordia in 2007.
- Le Devoir talks to Anik de Saint-Hilaire, coordinator of Concordia's Knowledge One, an affiliate of eConcordia, tasked with developing online courses at the university. The article references a plan by Concordia to offer four online courses open to elderly students, including one designed at the request of the U.N.'s environment program. In a separate story, Le Devoir writes that Concordia leads universities in Quebec for the number of registered students aged 50 and over, with 848 elderly students, including one 90-year-old.
- Corporate Knights reports the 2017 Better World MBA rankings, which puts the John Molson School of Business MBA program in 40th position in the world.