Indigenous studies. Health and happiness. Special bonuses. Sick at work. Systemic racism.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Two Concordians co-author a piece in La Presse + in which they urge Quebecers to press for schools in the province to teach Indigenous history and affairs. The authors are Elizabeth Fast, assistant professor of applied human sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science and special advisor to the provost on Indigenous programs at Concordia, and Concordia graduate student Brenda Cleary, an artist and educator.
• Janis Timm-Bottos, associate professor of art therapy in the Faculty of Fine Arts, is quoted in an article in Le Devoirabout a recent workshop on health and happiness, initiated by Timm-Bottos, who the paper says will present the initiative at an upcoming  symposium, April 6 and 7, at UQAM. The paper also mentions the participation in the workshop of Satoshi Ikeda, associate professor of sociology and anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• Michel Magnan, accountancy professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance in the John Molson School of Business, is quoted in an article in Lapresse.ca on the practice of paying large sums of money as "special bonuses" to the heads of corporations. 
• Fortune, examining the factors that may explain why some people report sick for work, quotes Gary Johns, professor emeritus of management at the John Molson School of Business. 
• Katrie Chagnon, curator at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, and FOFA Gallery director Jennifer Dorner, are listed among the signatories to an open letter in Le Devoir calling for public consultations about systemic racism. 

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