Concordia Signs More Agreements in China

Ort VOL. 25, N° 11 MARCH I. 2001 Indigenous marine management Alt Maltas ...u-aall off. i m pace& ... Concordia signs more agreements in China BY BARBAR A BLACK dia's John Molson School of Business istry and coating engineering. Anoth focuses on Web-based instruction, Hunan University (HU): This was also in Beijing, where he present er focus will be the development of academic technology training and agreement will focus on engineering The Con~ordia administrators ed information at an industry session new technology in the treatment of computer-based language testing. and computer science to promote who visited China last month involving Bombardier, SNC-Lavalin solid waste and agricultural residue. Academy of Chinese Traditional collaborative research and academic with Team Canada signed a number and Air Canada. Beijing Concord College of Sino Opera (ACTO): This institution , exchanges. It will focus initially on of significant agreements with insti Pulp and Paper Indus trial Canada (BCC SC): One hundred despite its name, also teaches mod areas in the field of building engi tutions there. Research Institute: This agreement and twenty students are expected to em music similar to that of Concor neering, specifically, industrial inter The delegation was led by Rector will focus on the bio-degradation of arrive next September as a result of dia's Music Department. The actions and sponsored research. One Frederick Lowy, with the participa waste from the pulp and paper this agreement, which will focus on agreement will include the develop specific goal of the agreement is to tion of Marcel Danis, Vice-Rector, industry and the photo-bleaching of the placement of Chinese undergrad ment of academic co-operation with establish a co-operative training pro Institutional Relations and Secretary paper. More specifically, collabora uate students at Concordia, and will industry, and will include faculty and gram between the two parties, name General, and Dean of Arts and Sci tive research will be aimed at envi explore the feasibility of transfer student exchanges for research and ly, the NU/CU Twinning Building ence Martin Singer, who is a Sinolo ronmental pollution issues, such as credit arrangements for BCCSC stu training. Concordia's Faculty of Fine Engineering Degree Program. gist. pulp and paper treatment, new dents who begin their undergraduate Arts will collaborate with the ACTO continued on page 11 Mohsen Anvari, Dean of Concor- bleaching technology, paper, chem- studies in Beijing. The agreement School of Fine Arts. · Community meeting about construction at Loyola public meeting will be held this long, low building running parallel sion will hold a hearing to look at ence building is the first phase of that ASaturday morning to provide to West Broadway St. plans for the Loyola campus on long-term plan. information to residents in the Loy It will house Biology, Chemistry March 7 at Montreal City Hall, start At the end of April, a similar hear ola area about Concordia's plans to _and Biochemistry, Physics, Psycholo ing at 7 p.m. ing will be held for the space plan as build a new science complex on the gy, Exercise Science, and the Science This is part of the normal process it relates to the downtown campus. west-end campus. College, as well as the Centre for regarding municipal approval for the The information session on building Rector Frederick Lowy has sug Studies in Behavioural Neurobiology university's master space plan as it plans for the Loyola Campus takes place gested that Concordia staff who live and the Centre for Structural and applies to the new science complex, 9:30 -11 a.m. on Saturday, March 3, in in the Loyola area might like to Functional Genomics. athletics complex, performing arts the Bryan Building, 3475 West Broad attend. The Urban Development Commis- pavilion and new residence. The sci- way St., Room 207. S.J. Father City councillor Jeremy Searle, who Patrick G. Malone supports the project, has been instru mental in calling the meeting to Father Patrick Mal on e, Re ctor of Loyola College from 1959 and Vice address any possible concerns by res Rector of Concordia from 1973 to . idents of the quiet residential neigh 1974, has died in Pickering, Ontario, bourhood. in his 83rd year. These may concern the route of Father Malone will long be trucks and workers, available park remembered for leading what had been a small men's college of 850 ing, the activities of nearby St. students into a complex urban insti Ignatius Loyola church, noise levels, tution of more than 13,000 full-time and even customary dog runs. and part-time students. The meeting will be chaired by He was one of the leading Eng Dennis Murphy, Executive Director lish-speaking Jesuit educators in Canada, fulfilling academic admin of Communications. Vice-Rector Ser _istrative posts in Halifax and Win vices Michael Di Grappa will speak, nipeg as well as here in Montreal as will an architect from the consor and in Pickering, whe re he was tium Marosi Troy/Jodoin Lamarre based at Manresa Retreat House at Pratte/Cardinal Hardy and Associ the time of his death, and where his funeral will be held today. ates, who can explain some of the The university and the Jesuit details of the building's design. community will hold a memorial ser It is expected that ground will be vice on March 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the broken this spring or summer for the Loyola Chapel, to which all are invit science complex, which will be a Artist's rendering of the new science complex at the Loyola Campus. ed. Business scholars are optimistic about globalization BY SIGALIT HOFFMAN it's likely that Western companies in telecommunications and in manu want the luxuries that the average Ikea does not sell products made by will make inroads into developing facturing winter boots. Globalization North American has," Chandra said. child labour, these standards have oncordia professors are eager to countries as part of this trend, he did will make it easier to export these Globalization is the result of a been difficult to enforce in their Indi Cembrace the inevitable. Interna not foresee foreign companies threat products, and will result in cus worldwide adoption of a capitalist an plants. Camey said that the local tional business professor Ramdas ening focal businesses. tomers getting better products at bet social structure. There have been two governments sometimes side with Chandra believes that while global "Local companies will respond," ter prices. experiments, he said, capitalism and local businesses that try to break the ization is a certainty, it may also raise he said. "They will become more Not only do industries stand to communism. "It seems that the capi rules. the standard of living of developing effective, more able to compete." For gain from globalization, Carney talist model has won out," he said, Chandra believes the entry of countries. "There's no way around example, Latin American car manu believes that companies are in danger and cited vast amount of empirical multinational companies has threat it," Chandra said. "What happens in facturers have continued to be suc of losing by not becoming multina evidence that links free markets with ened local identity, and insisted that Japan affects you in Canada." cessful despite GM plants like the tional. Since the aviation industry economic growth. governments institutionalize the pro Professor Chandra explained that one in Brazil. has remained nationally based, a Before globalization can benefit tection of local identity. the presence of multinational compa In some cases, local companies will "country that doesn't have a good developing countries in the long Carney disagreed. He predicted nies have changed the way business be at an advantage. The Caribbean airline is stuck with it." term, Chandra warned that there consumers will guard their identity es compete. They have broadened tourism industry is one such exam Chandra pointed to the saturation must first be a stable political system by distinguishing between cultural the sphere of competition, and put ple. of domestic markets and the opening in place. "In the long run, unless and consumer goods. "People still less efficient companies in danger of Concordia business strategist Mick up of markets like India and China there are legal systems, there won't prefer their news from a Canadian being undercut and forced out of the Camey thinks that globalization will as the two major causes of globaliza be too much benefit to the larger company, not Ted Turner's CNN . market. allow countries to capitalize on their tion. Thanks to new communications population." They don't care where their stereo is Globalization can be a blessing to strong points. technology, citizens of developing Carney pointed out that some made." developing countries. "In the short "Where there's globalization, countries have seen and sought the times, companies in developing This is the second in a series of arti run, economic growth deals with countries must decide where they do industrialized world's standard of liv countries do not want to conform to cles about the issue of globalization from poverty, and brings in new technolo well, where their natural skills are," ing. international working standards. the perspective of Concordia professors gy," Chandra said. Although he said Professor Camey said. Canada excels "They want this lifestyle. They Although the furniture manufacturer and students. Welch studies privatization around the world World Bank applies pressure heodora Welch is doing her PhD ent," Welch said in a telephone inter were started by the state, and in only Tin business strategy at Concor view from Cambridge, Mass. "Imag a few cases, in partnership with pri to improve governance dia, but from the vantage point of ine stretching that [American) model vate operators.

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