Concordia Libraries were first in Quebec to offer 24-hour service in 2011. | Photo: Concordia University
The Concordia University Alumni Association, which today represents 188,000 graduates, held its first board meeting in 1983.
Concordia launched a comprehensive course to examine genocide in 1981 — a big-thinking North American first.
Concordia went smoke-free in 1993.
The university produced graduates of the world’s first Aviation MBA in 1994.
Following a major gift from the Molson family in 1997, the Faculty of Commerce and Administration was renamed the John Molson School of Business in 2000.
By 2013, our firsts reached the stars as engineering students readied a Concordia satellite for launch into space — a Quebec first.
- Know a Concordia first? Submit your Concordia First by September 1, 2014.