CSLP honoured by UNESCO. Script writing master class. Team MTL sponsored by Hydro. QS World MBA tour.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 1, 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:
- Reports continue to circulate that Concordia's Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) will be awarded the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize. The award, sponsored by the Republic of Korea, recognizes the CSLP's work on the project, "Using Educational Technology to Develop Essential Educational Competencies in Sub-Saharan Africa": South Africa News, CIO East Africa, Books Live, Educavox.
- The Montreal Gazette features visiting professor Peter Lenkov, teaching a week-long master class on script writing to Concordia students in film and communications. The article mentions that Lenkov studied film at Concordia but left just three credits shy of his degree.
- Canadian Electrical Wholesaler joins coverage of Tuesday's news conference on the Loyola campus to announce Hydro Quebec's $250,000 sponsorship of the TeamMTLentry 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 that will be assembled in China next year.
- Daily Hive posts a brief profiling the John Molson School of Business in an article about the QS World MBA Tour, stopping in Montreal next Thursday, September 7th at the Hyatt Regency.