{"id":10577,"date":"2011-06-16T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10577"},"modified":"2011-06-16T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T16:10:27","slug":"lightstone-receives-honorary-degree-from-niagara-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/06\/lightstone-receives-honorary-degree-from-niagara-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightstone receives honorary degree from Niagara College"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10579\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10579\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10579 \" title=\"Dan Patterson of Niagara College and Jack Lightstone of Brock University\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lightstonepatterson.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Patterson, president of Niagara College, presents Brock president Jack Lightstone with an honorary degree.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Patterson, president of Niagara College, presents Brock president Jack Lightstone with an honorary degree.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>President Jack Lightstone has received an honorary degree from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagaracollege.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the college\u2019s afternoon Convocation ceremony on Wednesday, President Dan Patterson presented Lightstone with an honorary degree in Applied Studies.<\/p>\n<p>In his Convocation address, Lightstone spoke of the importance of Niagara\u2019s two post-secondary institutions working together to benefit the region. He called Niagara College \u201carguably the best college in the Ontario system\u201d and pledged to continue a positive relationship.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10578\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10578\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10578 \" title=\"Jack Lightstone addresses Convocation at Niagara College\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lightstoneniagaracollege.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Lightstone addresses Convocation at Niagara College\" width=\"288\" height=\"162\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Lightstone addresses Convocation at Niagara College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe have accomplished important things up until now and there is much more work yet to be done to build strong relations, to give new students and future students at Niagara College and at Brock better opportunities,\u201d Lightstone said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that we are committed to it, and I certainly know that President Patterson and his team are committed to continuing this work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightstone addressed more than 300 students who graduated from the college\u2019s schools of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Community Services.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Regional Police Service Chief of Police Wendy Southall was granted an Honorary Diploma in Policing and Security.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/niagaracollegenews.niagaracollege.ca\/2011\/06\/15\/niagara-college-and-brock-university-reaffirm-commitment-to-building-bridges-between-their-institutions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara College News and Media<\/a> for more information about the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Patterson presented President Jack Lightstone with an honorary degree in Applied Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577"}],"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=10577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10582,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions\/10582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}