When the man in charge of my alma mater came through Calgary several months ago, he had a lot on his mind.

Concordia University president and vice-chancellor Graham Carr, the special guest at an event hosted by the Montreal institution’s alumni association, relayed some of my old school’s recent successes to the assembled crowd, as you would expect.

But he also didn’t shy away from talking about some challenges. Some of them were unique to the political situation in Quebec, while others would sound very familiar to anyone following the trials and tribulations of all post-secondary institutions across Canada.

Chief among them was the reduction in the number of certain types of foreign students allowed to study in Canada.

This has implications for post-secondary institutions’ revenues, a

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