{"id":112131,"date":"2026-10-13T13:51:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=112131"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:42:27","slug":"nominations-sought-for-honorary-degree-recipients-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/10\/nominations-sought-for-honorary-degree-recipients-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations sought for honorary degree recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is accepting honorary degree nominations for outstanding individuals who have excelled in their field or created remarkable change.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Brock community and the general public can nominate someone they feel has made a meaningful impact based on merit in either:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>significant high quality scholarly and\/or creative work; or<\/li>\n<li>excellence in achievements deserving recognition, including outstanding achievement and\/or service in any area of interest to the University or meritorious public or humanitarian contributions to Brock, the Niagara region, Ontario, Canada or the international community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honorary degree nomination forms and guidelines are available on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/university-secretariat\/honorary-degrees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University Secretariat website<\/a>. Nominations can be submitted to the Senate Governance Committee Senate throughout the year but must be received by Wednesday, Nov. 4 to be considered for Spring Convocation in June.<\/p>\n<p>Current University employees, members of the Brock Board of Trustees and active politicians will not be considered for honorary degrees. Past employees and members of the Board may be considered if it has been at least three years since they vacated their position.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Governance Committee reviews all nominations in confidence and forwards its recommendations to Senate for consideration. To protect confidentiality, Senate does not report on its deliberations. Those approved at Senate are added to Brock\u2019s list of proposed honorary degree recipients for all Convocations at which an honorary degree is to be awarded. The President will select recipients from the list.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/university-secretariat\/honorary-degrees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">honorary degrees web page<\/a> or contact the Office of the University Secretariat at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:universitysecretary@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">universitysecretary@brocku.ca<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is accepting honorary degree nominations for outstanding individuals who have excelled in their field or created remarkable change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,9794],"tags":[4157,644,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112131"}],"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=112131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112132,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112131\/revisions\/112132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}