International student enrolment. Bethlehem University exchanges. Climate Clock. Fossil fuel divestment. Quartier de l'innovation.
Concordia in the news
Posted on May 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:
- Agence QMI quotes president Alan Shepard from a New York Times story of Friday, May 19 about a significant increase in foreign student enrolment applications at Canadian universities, including Concordia. In the Times report, Shepard talks about the "Trump effect" on American students' interest in Canada. The Agence QMI story is picked up by TVAnouvelles.ca, Le Journal de Montréal, Canoe and Marco. It was also reported in the news roundup on TVA's 'Salut Bonjour Weekend, Sunday morning (no link available). A Concordia student, Nancy Gorosh of Houston, is referenced in the New York Times and QMI stories.
- Le Journal de Montréal, TVAnouvelles.ca and Marco pick up news that Concordia has signed an agreement involving Bethlehem University, Fonds de recherche du Québec and the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology to facilitate researcher and student exchanges.The agreement, announced in a Quebec government release, was signed during the trade and cooperation mission to the West Bank and Israel, led by premier Philippe Couillard. The exchange agreement is reported also by Radio-Canada (text version reprised by Quebec Online News) and announced in a CNW/Telbec news release (picked up by Le Lézard).
- Singer and author David Usher talks to National Observer about Concordia's Climate Clock — a climate change visualization tool created at Concordia's Human Impact Lab by Usher and Damon Matthews, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science.
- Concordia's decision to establish a fossil fuel divestment fund is referenced in a Huffington Post article (reprised byNewscaf) that traces the evolution of the fuel divestment movement in Canada.
- Damien Silès, director general of Montreal's Quartier de l'innovation (QI), writes an op-ed in Le Devoir about QI's approach to development and lists Concordia among the QI partners.