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January 1, 1978: At the University Senate meeting of December 16, 1977, Vice-Rector, Academic (Arts and Science) Russell Breen announced that as of January 1, 1978, there would be only one Chairman, C. Stephen Casey for the merged department of Classics. Since the signing of the merger of 1974 (and the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar published in 1975), the department had appeared with distinct Chairmen for Loyola and Sir George Williams campuses.

December 18, 1996: Merger of the Department of Classics and the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and therefore the establishment of the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics.

Founded in 1965 as Communication Arts, the Department of Communication Studies was the first department to study the art of communication in Canada. In keeping with this ground-breaking tradition, the department has since gone on to develop three highly innovative graduate programs: a Diploma in Communication, a Master of Arts in Media Studies, and a Joint PhD in Communication.

The Department of Contemporary Dance has its origins in the hiring of Professor Elizabeth Langley as a Lecturer to teach a dance course in the Division of Performing Arts of the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1978.

1979-1980: Dance appears for the first time in the Division of Performing Arts in the Undergraduate Calendar.

May 29, 1979: The University Senate approves a B.F.A. Major in Modern Dance programme for 1980-1981. This was the first Canadian university dance programme geared to training choreographers.

April 1981: The Fine Arts Faculty Council approves that more funds should be made towards the appearance of the Major in Modern Dance in media publications since ‘the Dance area had no visibility within the proposed Faculty structure’.

March 25, 1988: Due to the growth in popularity of the program, the University Senate establishes Contemporary Dance as an Academic department within the Faculty of Fine Arts.

September 2009: The Contemporary Dance as well as Theatre department are moved from the Loyola Campus to their new facilities in the GM and MB buildings.

The Department of English of Concordia University has its origins in the respective departments of English of the University’s two founding institutions: Loyola College and Sir George Williams University (SGWU). A formal Department of English was established at the beginning of the 1960s in the two institutions. The administration and faculty of both departments were joined together in 1977 in the wake of the Loyola College and Sir George Williams University merger in 1974.

Between 1966 and 1972 members of the Sir George Williams University (SGWU) Department of English hosted a series of poetry readings that was conceived as an on-going encounter between local (Montreal) poets and some writers from the United States and the rest of Canada. Sponsored by The Poetry Committee of the SGWU Faculty of Arts and the Department of English, these readings involved more than sixty poets from across North America. The series was the creation of three SGWU professors: Howard Fink and Stanton Hoffman from the Department of English and Roy Kiyooka from the Department of Fine Arts.

1965-1966: The Department of Finance is officially formalized at Sir George Williams University (SGWU), under the Faculty of Commerce, with G. Robert Curnew acting as the first departmental Chairman.

1974: As part of the merger between Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, the Department of Finance is integrated with Concordia University, under the Faculty of Commerce and Administration.

November 2000: the Department of Finance becomes part of the John Molson School of Business, previously known as the Concordia University Faculty of Commerce and Administration.

The Leisure Studies program (called Recreation and Leisure Studies until 1985) was established in 1974 as part of Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. It became a department (Loyola campus) at the beginning of the 1980s. The program drew from the departments of Applied Social Science, Exercise Science, Psychology, Sociology and the Faculties of Commerce and Administration, and Fine Arts. In November 1997, the Leisure Studies program was amalgamated with the Department of Applied Social Science to establish the Department of Applied Human Sciences.

The formation of the Advertising Office, around 1976, came as a result of the increasing need of the University community to publicize itself and its activities on both campuses through the means of the information media and promotional publicity. First under the auspices of the Information Office, the office became a separate department around 1978. Michael Hainsworth was its director until his departure in 1995, followed by Sandra Spina. The Department of Advertising (sometimes also called Department of Advertising and Publications), which reported to the Vice-Rector, Institutional Relations and Finance, became the Department of Marketing Communications in August 1990. The department also became responsible for the Information Desk in 2001. It was merged with University Communications Services by the year 2006.

January 1, 1978: At the University Senate meeting of December 16, 1977, Vice-Rector, Academic (Arts and Science) Russell Breen announced that as of January 1, 1978, there would be only one Chairman for the merged department of Political Science. Since the signing of the merger of 1974 (and the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar published in 1975), the department had appeared with distinct Chairmen for Loyola and Sir George Williams campuses (Ronald C. Coyte and Horst Hutter, respectively).

Loyola College and Sir George Williams University merged in 1974 to create Concordia University. At the time of the merger, both institutions had thriving Athletics Department and were involved in Varsity and Intramural Sports.

Following the recommendations of a committee to evaluate the Student Services area, the Board of Governors, at its meeting of June 12, 1975, merged the two departments into a single unit. Edmund F. Enos, former Director of Loyola Athletics, became Director of the newly formed Concordia department. The director of the Sir George Williams Department of Physical Education, George Short, became assistant athletic director.

In September 1975, a contest was organized to name the Concordia teams. A committee, composed of students from both campuses, narrowed the list of 150 submissions. After meeting with athletics administrators, the name Stingers was selected. On November 13, 1975, the Board of Governors approved the name.

In 1976-1977, the Department of Physical Education and Athletics appeared as one entity in the Undergraduate Calendar for the first time. The Department changed its name to Department of Fitness, Recreation and Athletics in the late 1980s and again in the early 1990s to Department of Recreation and Athletics.

Since the 1970s, the Department has published several programs bearing different names, including Sports Review, Stinger Sports, Sport Scenes, and Stinger Magazine, to name a few.

2017: The Department of Religion becomes the Department of Religions and Cultures, according to the 2017-2018 Undergraduate Calendar.

The Department of Studio Arts was created in Spring 1996 by the consolidation of the Department of Sculpture, Ceramics and Fibres, the Department of Painting and Drawing, the Department of Printmaking and Photography, as well as the Interdisciplinary Studies programme, the Studio Art programme, and the Women and the Fine Arts programme.

1975-1976: Theatre Arts programme is under the Division of Performing Arts. At that time, the Drama (BA) is offered on Loyola Campus while the Theatre Arts (BFA) is on Sir George Williams Campus. They both appear in the first Concordia University Undergraduate Calendar.

September 1977: John O’Brien announces to the University Senate that the Certificate in Theatre Arts and Creative Drama has been approved by the Ministry of Education.

June 1, 1979: The Fine Arts Faculty Council states the creation of Theatre Arts as an academic department effective, as the program was already functioning as such.

May 19, 1983: The name of the Department of Theatre Arts is changed to Department of Theatre. D. Childs is the first Chairman.

Fall 1992: The department of Theatre leaves the Chameleon Theatre spaces for the newly renovated F. C. Smith Auditorium and the D. B. Clarke Theatre.

December 1995: Co-produced with Geordie Productions, the play ‘A Christmas Carol’ receives critical acclaim from Montreal Press.

Winter 2007: Edward Little goes to India with the Theatre and Development program to teach students how to use theatre as a social tool for change and activism. The three-weeks trip is taking them to poor rural areas as part of a project called ‘A Theatre for Human Rights’, with the collaboration of the Centre for Social Action in India and members of the Teesri Duniya Theatre.

May 2009: Prof. Robert Reid and a dozen of students are headed to Beijing. They are taking part in an educational exchange with China’s National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts.

Fall 2009: Along with the department of Contemporary Dance, the department of Theatre is moving to their new facilities in the GM building. The goal is to consolidate all of performing arts departments on the downtown campus (the department of Music would move the following year).

June 1, 1975: Prof. Sean McEvenue assumes the duties of Chairman of the Department of Theological Studies.
May 26, 1978: The B.A. Specialization in Theological Studies Programme is approved by the University Senate.
May 26, 1989: The M.A. in Theological Studies is approved by the University Senate.
1992: Prof. Russell Moroziuk is invited to attend the University of Kiev for one year to develop the first curriculum in theological studies at the university.
September 15, 1995: The ministerial approval of the M.A. in Theological Studies is announced at the University Senate.
November 2005: Studia Theologica, the newsletter of the Theological Studies department, is launched.

The Development Office was responsible for the University fundraising activities until 1986. After the merger of Sir George Williams University and Loyola College in 1974, Stirling Dorrance was the first to work on the organization of development plans for Concordia University. In January 1980, E. Howard Radford, the University Development Officer for the two previous years, was replaced by John E. Saunders, with the title of Director of Development, reporting to the Rector. Mr. Saunders had been director of the Sir George Williams Schools since 1964 for which he continued to assume the overall direction. In April 1986, during the University five-year Capital Campaign Building Together for a new library building, the Development Office was closed and the second phase of the campaign was put in the hands of a professional firm, Ketchum Inc.

The Concordia University Faculty Association (CUFA), which represents faculty members, held a memorial service for its former president Morton Stelcner.

Organized in the wake of the Loyola College and Sir George Williams University merger in September 1974, the Office of the Treasurer of Concordia University assumed the responsibilities for general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable (Student Accounts), payroll, insurance, and operating budget. However, for some years, controlling of the capital budget was the responsibility of the University physical resources management area.

The main premises of the Office of the Treasurer have been on the Sir George Williams (SGW) campus but there was also an office mainly for Student Accounts on the Loyola campus until 1992.

Between 1974 and 1995, the Office of the Treasurer was under the direction of the Assistant Vice-Rector and Treasurer who was part of the portfolio of the Vice-Rector Administration and Finance until 1985 and then under the Vice-Rector Institutional Relations and Finance. In November 1995, part of a reorganization of the senior administration, the position of Vice-Rector Institutional Relations and Finance was split in two, creating the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO), reporting directly to the Rector, in order that the CFO could be charged exclusively with the management of the University’s financial affairs. With this administrative reorganization, the Office of the Treasurer was renamed Financial Services. Payroll was also moved under Human Resources at the same period.

In 1974, the first Assistant Vice-Rector and Treasurer was William (Bill) M. Reay – who had been before the merger, the Treasurer of Sir George Williams University. He stayed in office at Concordia until the end of 1981. He was followed by Wilfred (Fred) G. McManus until August 1988. Jean-Paul Lauly was then the Concordia Treasurer until the arrival of the first University Chief Financial Officer, Larry English, in July 1996.

September 21, 2006: The FOFA Gallery opens with the exhibition titled Body Notes featuring artists Marc Séguin, Caroline George, Sophie Jodoin, Theresa Sapergia and Marion Wagschal. The gallery offers a street-front location on St. Catherine street as well as a vitrine space along the York Corridor, in the new EV building.

Spring 2009: The gallery benefits for the first time of funding from the Canada Council for the Arts thanks to the efforts of jake moore, then interim director.

May 28 to June 4, 2010: During the 2010 Congress of the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted by Concordia, the FOFA Gallery plays a key role, becoming the ‘centre of stimulating, interdisciplinary exchange’.

• The Institute is launched on March 6, 2001.
• First Nations Artists in Canada by Joan Reid Acland was the first book published by the Institute in 2001.