Montreal Gazette
Tuition hike puts McGill, Concordia in financial peril, Moody’s warns
Changes are “credit negative” and could weaken “the reputation and strategic brand of both universities by materially altering the compositions of students.”
Montreal Gazette
Concordia University tells departments to slash budgets by 7.8 per cent
The school says it “cannot meet its core operating costs, which consist mostly of salaries and the day-to-day operations that support teaching, research and student life.”
Calgary Herald
Former Suncor exec, MP to assume director role for U of C school of public policy
Martha Hall Findlay will serve as the school’s director for the next five years.
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