Concordia timeline

2023

• The School of Health was launched (PC Building).

2020

• The Applied Science Hub opens on the Loyola Campus to support research fields such as agriculture, health and sustainable development; it is connected to the SP Building to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and research.
• The Concordia Library introduces the Sofia Discovery tool, which provides its users with access to more than 20 million items from the 18 partner institutions and replaces the CLUES catalogue.

2019

• 4^TH SPACE welcomes the public to the street-level vitrine that is at once a science centre, living lab, theatre, design showroom and public exhibition space.

2018

• The Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science becomes the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, the first such university faculty in Canada named after a woman.

2017

• Concordia introduces the Genome Foundry, the first of its kind in Canada, where synthetic biologists investigate the scientific challenges of tomorrow.

2014

• Students begin moving into the historic, newly reopened Grey Nuns Residence.

2012

• The District 3 Innovation Centre (District 3, now the District 3 Innovation Hub), Concordia’s entrepreneurship incubator, opens its doors.

2011

• The state-of-the-art PERFORM Centre, which promotes better health through prevention, and the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics (GE Building) open on the Loyola Campus.

2009

• JMSB moves to its new premises, the John Molson Building (MB Building), on the Sir George Williams Campus.
• Concordia launches Spectrum, its open access research repository.

2006

• Le Gym fitness centre, located in the EV Building, opens its doors to students, faculty, staff and the public

2005

• The Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (EV Building) on the Sir George Williams Campus gathers most of the engineering, computer science and fine arts departments under one address.
• The completely renovated and expanded Communication Studies and Journalism Building (CJ Building) opens. 

2003

• The Richard J. Renaud Science Complex (SP Building), home to Concordia’s science departments, opens on the Loyola Campus.

2000

• Concordia’s Faculty of Commerce and Administration is renamed the John Molson School of Business. 

1998

• The Stingers women’s hockey team wins the inaugural Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union (now U Sports) women’s hockey championship.
• The Loyola (CFLI) and Sir George Williams (CRSG) campus radio stations merge to form CJLO.

1997

• The Department of Cinema is renamed the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema.

1992

• Concordia Library launches CLUES, its online public access catalogue.
• The R. Howard Webster Library and Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, in the new J.W. McConnell Building, welcome their first students and visitors.

1990

• The acoustically advanced Loyola Concert Hall (now the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall) opens.
• The Department of Psychology moves into the former Loyola High School.

1989

• Concordia’s football stadium officially opens on the Loyola Campus.

1988

• Montreal’s Guy metro station is renamed Guy-Concordia metro station.

1983

• The Concordia University Alumni Association is founded.

1982

• The Faculty of Commerce and Administration hosts the world’s first international MBA Case Competition (now the John Molson MBA International Case Competition).

1981

• Concordia opens its Institute for Co-operative Education, which allows students to alternate between study and work terms in industry.

1980

• The Link student newspaper replaces the Georgian and the Loyola News.

1979

• Students from the Loyola and Sir George Williams campuses vote to replace their separate student associations with the Concordia University Students’ Association (CUSA); in 1994, CUSA becomes the Concordia Student Union (CSU).
• The Science College and School of Community and Public Affairs welcome their first cohorts.

1978

• The Liberal Arts College, Lonergan University College and Simone de Beauvoir Institute — Canada’s first women’s studies program — open their doors.

1977

• The Loyola Faculty of Arts and Science and the Sir George Williams Faculty of Arts join to create the Faculty of Arts and Science.

1976

• Concordia introduces its inter-campus shuttle bus.

1975

• The athletics teams, formerly the Loyola Warriors and Sir George Williams Georgians, come together as the Concordia Stingers.
• The Faculty of Fine Arts and Centre for Continuing Education (now Concordia Continuing Education) are established.

1974

• Loyola College and Sir George Williams University merge to become Concordia University.