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Concordia in the news
Posted on April 3, 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:
- LaPresse.ca reports on last Wednesday's inauguration of the new Montreal Museum of Fine Arts art hive, in the Michel de La Chenelière International Atelier for Education and Art Therapy. Several Concordians are quoted: President Alan Shepard, associate professors of art therapy Janis Timm-Bottos and Josée Leclerc and alumnus Stephen Legari (MA, art therapy).
- LaPresse.ca and The Suburban feature arts philanthropist, the late Sean Buller Murphy, who established the John J.A. Murphy Cecil Buller scholarship for drawing at Concordia in 1999.
- Ton Barbier, writing about the theatre scene in Montreal, mentions recent curricular and performance production changes at Concordia's Department of Theatre.
- Le Journal de Montréal, reporting on some of the difficulties experienced by Indigenous students as they integrate into the university milieux, writes that there are 98 Indigenous students currently enrolled at Concordia.