Team MTL sponsored. Balade Pour La Paix. NPO MBA. Intro to Montreal culture. UNESCO award.
Concordia in the news
Posted on August 31, 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:
- Voir Vert and the McGill University media relations office report on Tuesday's news conference on the Loyola campus to announce Hydro Quebec's $250,000 sponsorship of the TeamMTL entry in Solar Decathlon China 2018 in Dezhou, China. The team, made up of more than 40 Concordia and McGill students, designed and assembled the net-zero energy Deep-Performance Dwelling. The dwelling, currently open to the public will be disassembled and re-assembled in China next year.
- WOW Magazine publishes an article about Montreal and in it mentions the public art exhibit La Balade Pour La Paix. The exhibit was created and organized by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the McCord Museum, and with the support of Concordia and McGill.
- Les Affaires writes about the utility of an MBA in the not-for-profit sector. Sandra Betton, associate professor and MBA program director in the John Molson School of Business, and Dave McKenzie, founder and coordinator of the Community Service Initiative, are quoted. There is also a profile on EMBA graduate Shannon Willcocks who runs the CPE Riverview in Verdun.
- A TourismExpress news release lists Concordia among the universities partnered in a program to welcome international students to Montreal and introduce them to the city's cultural scene.
- MNI Alive, India Education Diary, French People Daily and NDTV pick up an earlier UNESCO release announcing that Concordia's Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) will be awarded the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize, sponsored by the Republic of Korea. The prize recognizes the CSLP's work on the project, "Using Educational Technology to Develop Essential Educational Competencies in Sub-Saharan Africa".