Jihadism. Concordia First Book Prize. Idea Café. IT-savy business students. International students from India.
Concordia in the news
Posted on November 23, 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:
- CBC News (text) references Concordia's SOMEONE (SOcial Media EducatiON Every day) initiative in an article about Islamic jihadism. The reporter writes that Public Safety Canada recently gave Project SOMEONE $367,000 in new funding.
- CBC Books reports that the Concordia University First Book Prize at this week's Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF) Literary Awards went to Jocelyn Parr for Uncertain Weights and Measures (Goose Lane Editions, 2017).
- Eventbrite announces an Idea Café, today, from 9:30 am to 11:30 am at the Grey Nun's Residence. The event is part of a review by the university of practices and services in support of student health and well-being .
- Les affaires, writing about information technology training among aspiring business owners and managers, quotes Anne-Marie Croteau, dean of the John Molson School of Business and professor in the Department of Supply Chain and Business Technology Management, who says the JMSB has had to hire more professors to meat the demand for IT minors in its management programs.
- The Siasat Daily reprises an article from The Economic Times of India, reporting that there has been an increase of roughly 30 percent in the number of applications from India to attend the John Molson School of Business. It ascribes the increasing, in part, to the tightening of visa requirements for students in the UK and heightened protectionism in the wake of the election of U.S. president Donald Trump.