{"id":105146,"date":"2025-10-09T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=105146"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:57:41","slug":"brocks-progress-celebrated-as-annual-report-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/10\/brocks-progress-celebrated-as-annual-report-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock\u2019s progress celebrated as Annual Report launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community came together Thursday, Oct. 9 to celebrate the University\u2019s progress in the year since launching its <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/strategic-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">institutional strategic plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President and Vice-Chancellor Lesley Rigg delivered the update alongside senior leaders who shared some of the many highlights and accomplishments from 2024-25 and reflected on how they advance the University\u2019s strategic priorities.<\/p>\n<p>The event saw the launch of Brock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/192\/University-Annual-Report-2024-25.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annual Report<\/a> and the presentation of the University Action Plan, which is also included in the newly released document.<\/p>\n<p>Rigg emphasized the initiatives highlighted during the event were a sampling of the many impressive advancements that have taken place at Brock over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is only a small representation, or snapshot, of the many great things going on at and around Brock, and the amazing work that each one of you do every day to contribute to academics, research, projects and other initiatives,\u201d she said. \u201cWe see the work you do. Our students benefit from everything Brock has to offer, and it is because of each of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event\u2019s speakers included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Lathrop, Special Advisor to the President and Provost, and Acting Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning, who outlined the University Action Plan.<\/li>\n<li>Debbie Inglis, Director of Brock\u2019s Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute, who highlighted Brock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/11\/clean-vines-new-wines-focus-of-2m-ontario-research-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clean vines research<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Melissa Krist, Executive Director of Brock Sports and Recreation, who reflected on the opening of the University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/04\/new-sport-medicine-clinic-to-offer-community-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new Sport Medicine Clinic<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Chelsea Takalo, Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, who spoke about initiatives in Brock\u2019s Office of Human Rights and Equity.<\/li>\n<li>David Begg, Associate Vice-President, International, who discussed the launch of Brock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/international\/partnerships\/international-strategic-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international strategic plan<\/a> and global delegations.<\/li>\n<li>Rob Gottschalk, Associate Vice-President, Alumni and Development, who highlighted alumni initiatives and donor impact.<\/li>\n<li>Mary Quintana, Interim Associate Vice-President, Facilities Management, who discussed the transformative <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/09\/spark-initiative-to-position-brock-as-global-leader-in-climate-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPARK clean infrastructure project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Steven Khan, Director of Teacher Education Programs, who reflected on the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/10\/province-invests-5-2m-in-brock-teacher-education-as-new-burlington-campus-opens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening of the Burlington Campus<\/a> and the growth of teacher education at Brock.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To view the 2024-25 Annual Report, visit Brock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/strategic-plan\/\">Strategic Plan website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a recording of the event below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"flexvideo\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brock\u2019s progress celebrated as Annual Report launched\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dXlkRS8HdUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community came together Thursday, Oct. 9 to celebrate the University\u2019s progress in the year since launching its institutional strategic plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,3319,4052,1],"tags":[1957,4828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105146"}],"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=105146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105342,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105146\/revisions\/105342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}