Concordia University

Concordia University (normally alluded to as Concordia) is an open exhaustive college situated in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Established in 1974 after the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the two colleges in Montreal where English is the essential dialect of direction. As of the 2014-2015 scholarly year, there were 46,378 understudies selected at Concordia, making the college among the biggest in Canada by enlistment. The college has two grounds, set roughly 7 kilometers (4 miles) separated: Sir George Williams Campus is the principle grounds in the downtown center of Montreal, in a range known as Quartier Concordia, and Loyola Campus in the private locale of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. With four resources, a school of graduate studies and various universities, focuses and organizes, Concordia offers more than 300 undergrad and 100 graduate projects and courses. 

Concordia was positioned 25th among Canada's 49 exhaustive colleges in the 2016 Maclean's college rankings. The college is positioned sixteenth in Canada and 411th worldwide by QS World University Rankings and is positioned 91st in the 2015 Times Higher Education positioning of the main 100 colleges worldwide under 50 years of age. The college's John Molson School of Business is reliably positioned inside of the main ten Canadian business colleges, and inside of the main 100 around the world. In addition, Concordia was positioned seventh among Canadian and 229th among world colleges in the International Professional Classification of Higher Education Institutions, an overall positioning aggregated by the École des Mines de Paris that uses as its sole basis the quantity of graduates possessing the rank of Chief Executive Officer at Fortune 500 organizations. 

Concordia is a non-partisan and coeducational foundation, with more than 193,000 living graduated class around the world. The University is an individual from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, the International Association of Universities, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate and additionally the Canadian Bureau for International Education and the Canadian University Press. The college's varsity groups, known as the Stingers, contend in the Quebec Student Sport Federation of Canadian Interuniversity Sport. 

History 

Despite the fact that the foundations of its establishing organizations backtrack over 160 years, Concordia University was framed on August 24, 1974, through the merger of Loyola College (1896) and Sir George Williams University (1926). Since its origin, Concordia has changed its logo four times. 

Loyola College 

Primary article: Loyola College (Montreal) 

Loyola College in 1937. 

Loyola College follows its roots to an English-dialect program at the Jesuit Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal (today part of the Université du Québec à Montréal) at the Sacred Heart Convent. In 1896, Loyola College was built up at the side of Bleury Street and Saint Catherine Street. Loyola College was named to pay tribute to Ignatius of Loyola, organizer of the Society of Jesus. On March 10, 1898, the foundation was consolidated by the Government of Quebec and turned into an undeniable school. That year, taking after a flame, the school was moved, encourage west on Drummond Street, south of Saint Catherine. Albeit established as a collège classique (the harbingers of Quebec's school framework), Loyola started giving college degrees through Université Laval in 1903. 

The school moved into the present west-end grounds on Sherbrooke Street West in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in 1916. The School of Sociology opened in 1918. In 1920, the foundation got to be subsidiary with the Université de Montréal, which started allowing degrees rather than Université Laval. 

Remembrance bronze honor move plaques in the passageway lobby, authoritative workplaces are committed to those from Loyola College who battled in the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. 

The between war period was set apart by the movement of instruction in the establishment, the "collège classique" training was supplanted by humanistic training (Liberal Arts College) in 1940, and Loyola turned into a four-year college. Loyola College never turned into a contracted college, and never had the capacity to allow its own college degrees. Religious philosophy and theory were subjects taught to all understudies until 1972. 

In 1940, the Faculty of Science and the Department of Engineering, which turned into a workforce in 1964, were made. Notwithstanding giving the same undergrad programs as different universities, the foundation likewise offered inventive fields of learn at the time, for example, exercise science and correspondence concentrates on. Understudies could select in Academic majors beginning in 1953 and respects programs in 1958. Understudies moving on from Loyola could a while later seek after graduate-level instruction in different colleges, with a couple procuring Rhodes Scholarships. 

Beginning in 1958, Loyola likewise started offering its first night courses for understudies not having the capacity to go to class full-time. New courses were given in library science and confidence group nursing. Since its creation, Loyola College had invited only youthful English-speaking Catholic men as understudies. It got to be co-ed in 1959 and turned out to be less homogeneous with the perpetually expanding number of outside understudies. 

Getting a college contract was a vital issue in the 1960s. Albeit numerous needed the Loyola College to wind up Loyola University, the Quebec government liked to attach it to Sir George Williams University. Transactions started in 1968 and finished with the production of Concordia University on August 24, 1974. 

Sir George Williams University 

Primary article: Sir George Williams University 

Sir George Williams University's Henry F. Lobby Building in 1970. 

In 1851, the primary YMCA in North America was set up on Ste-Helene road in Old Montreal. Starting in 1873, the YMCA offered evening classes to permit working individuals in the English-talking group to seek after their training while working amid the day. After sixty years, the Montreal YMCA migrated to its present area on Stanley Street in Downtown Montreal. In 1926, the training program at the YMCA was re-sorted out as Sir George Williams College, named after George Williams, author of the first YMCA in London, whereupon the Montreal YMCA was based. In 1934, Sir George Williams College offered the main undergrad credit course in grown-up instruction in Canada. 

The Sir George Williams College got to be Sir George Williams University (SGWU) in 1948, when it got a college sanction from the common government, however it remained the training arm of the Montreal YMCA. SGWU ventured into its first standalone building, the Norris Building, in 1956. It built up a Center for Human Relations and Community Studies in 1963. SGWU kept on holding classes in the YMCA working until the development of the Henry F. Lobby Building in 1966. 

The college increased universal consideration in 1969, when a gathering of understudies involved the Hall Building's ninth floor PC lab (see Sir George Williams Computer Riot). 

Taking after quite a long while of discourses and arranging, Sir George Williams University converged with Loyola College to make Concordia University in 1974. Concordia gave understudies delegate understudy associations and more prominent control over authoritative choices at the University. 

Merger 

In 1968, in the wake of the Parent Commission Report, which prescribed for the secularization of Quebec's instructive framework, the Quebec government asked Loyola College and Sir George Williams University to think of some as type of union. The proposed merger was talked about by the Loyola-Sir George Williams Joint Steering Committee, a panel made to investigate all types of conceivable mergers of the two establishments. It was proposed, in 1969, to make a college alliance which permitted understudies to take courses at both grounds without paying extra expenses. There is likewise say of a van transport administration connecting the remote offices 7 km (4.3 mi) separated. 

Censured for the troubles experienced by the attachment of the different divisions and resources, this choice was put aside, yet not completely rejected by the Joint Steering Committee. The Joint Committee of Representatives of the Board of Trustees of Loyola College and the Board of Governors of Sir George Williams University was shaped in December 1971 and created in the fall of 1972, a report plotting the premise of a college with two grounds. While various conceivable models were considered, including that of a free league, the arrangement at last embraced was that of a coordinated organization, Concordia University, working under the current sanction of Sir George Williams University. Taking after a few corrections in November 1972, the archive turned into the primary arrangement of the proposed merger. It was acknowledged by both foundations, which started the procedure of uniting their operations. 

In mid 1973, the two organizations reported the merger would occur that fall. Be that as it may, legitimate and managerial methodology postponed the merger for one more year. On August 24, 1974, the Government of Quebec perceived the merger, along these lines making Concordia University. The name was taken from the aphorism of the city of Montreal, Concordia salus (signifying 'prosperity through congruity'). 

"When you join together two energetic foundations, each with its own particular methods of insight and methods for doing things, each solidly devoted to flexibility of thought and discourse, you should expect a measure of erosion. We look forward now to another time of imaginative grating." 

— ?Concordia Rector and Vice-Chancellor John O'Brien, on the conclusion of the merger, August 16, 1974,