{"id":100699,"date":"2025-04-11T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=100699"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:20:53","slug":"watch-community-information-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/04\/watch-community-information-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Community Information Session\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Provost and Vice-President, Academic Arja Vainio-Mattila led an information session providing details on the University\u2019s plans for a sustainable future Thursday at Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The session provided background on the government\u2019s post-secondary education funding model, Brock\u2019s budget planning and its financial sustainability strategy. Presenters also included Josh Tonnos, Chief Financial Officer and Associate Vice-President, Financial Services, and Anna Lathrop, Special Advisor to the Provost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrock\u00a0 \u2014 together with the wider post-secondary education sector in Ontario \u2014 faces some significant fiscal challenges,\u201d said Vainio-Mattila. \u201cWe cannot continue to operate the way we always have. But by better aligning our efforts with our strategic priorities, finding more efficient ways to do our work, exploring new avenues for revenue generation, and enhancing our student recruitment and retention efforts, we will build a sustainable, resilient future for Brock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow-up questions to the information session may be submitted <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=FRGudvwe8kqlNuKyRDrxoOHqNe1wJNlOoVOMvXcbAVBUMVFRWUlET0NMV1ozVk5VNUtISDRMQUlSSSQlQCN0PWcu&amp;route=shorturl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online here<\/a> by Friday, April 25 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The full session can be <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.sharepoint.com\/teams\/ProvostsOfficeExternalSharing\/_layouts\/15\/stream.aspx?id=%2Fteams%2FProvostsOfficeExternalSharing%2FShared%20Documents%2FCommunity%20Planning%20Update%20%28April%2010%2C%202025%29%2FCommunity%20Planning%20Update%20%28April%2010%2C%202025%29%20%2D%20Recording%2Emp4&amp;ga=1&amp;referrer=StreamWebApp%2EWeb&amp;referrerScenario=AddressBarCopied%2Eview%2E1a794e0c%2D49c8%2D4d47%2Da267%2Deba7cd885edd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viewed on SharePoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Provost and Vice-President, Academic Arja Vainio-Mattila led an information session providing details on the University\u2019s plans for a sustainable future Thursday at Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100701,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100699\/revisions\/100701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}