{"id":104289,"date":"2025-09-09T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=104289"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:16:31","slug":"volunteers-sought-for-fall-convocation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/09\/volunteers-sought-for-fall-convocation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers sought for Fall Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock employees have the chance to be part of a milestone moment when graduating students cross the stage next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Registrar and Enrolment Services is looking for staff and faculty volunteers for <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/convocation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the University&#8217;s 118th Convocation<\/a>, which takes place on Friday, Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of volunteer opportunities are available, including welcoming guests, assisting graduands in the gowning room and distributing diplomas.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants can select the times that work best for them\u00a0and must get approval from their manager or supervisor if volunteer shifts fall during their scheduled work hours.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of opportunities and the volunteer application form, visit Brock\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/convocation\/convocation-volunteers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Convocation website<\/a>.\u00a0The deadline to apply is Friday, Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about volunteering at Convocation can be sent to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:convocation@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convocation@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock employees have the chance to be part of a milestone moment when graduating students cross the stage next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7],"tags":[1368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104289"}],"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=104289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104291,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104289\/revisions\/104291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}