The campus Trump bump. Upcoming new honorands.
Concordia in the news
Posted on May 11, 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:
- There is heavy media coverage of a statement by president Alan Shepard yesterday concerning what has been termed "the Trump effect" on university enrolment in Canada: Shepard, speaking with reporters following his speech before the Conseil des Relations Internationales de Montréal (CORIM), yesterday afternoon, remarked that the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. appeared to signal a wave of "regressive nationalism" in different parts of the world. This, he said, has sparked a significant increase in the number of students and academics opting to move to Canada rather than to the United States. The article notes a 23 percent increase in U.S. applications for undergraduate studies at Concordia and a 74 percent increase for graduate studies. Shepard called on the Canadian government to take full advantage of the "Trump effect" by simplifying the process of moving to Canada: La Presse +, The Canadian Press (picked up by L'actualité, LaPresse.ca, CTVMontreal.ca, CTVWinnipeg.ca, GlobalNews.ca, Journal Métro, Metro News, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, Cape Breton Post, Sudbury.com, Winnipeg Free Press, Brandon Sun, Medicine Hat News, The Western Star, Lethbridge Herald, Red Deer News Now, Victoria Times Colonist, Nanaimo News Now, The Kelowna Daily Courier, CFJC Today), NewsCaf, EIN News. The story is also reported in news briefs on Radio-Canada.ca and City News.
- AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) reports that Concordia will confer nine honorary degrees at its Spring, 2017 convocation.