{"id":27678,"date":"2014-04-22T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=27678"},"modified":"2014-04-22T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T18:29:31","slug":"faculty-of-graduate-studies-invites-nominations-for-distinguished-alumni-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/04\/faculty-of-graduate-studies-invites-nominations-for-distinguished-alumni-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of Graduate Studies invites nominations for Distinguished Alumni Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/graduate-studies\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Graduate Studies<\/a> invites nominations for its 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/alumni-association\/awards\/distinguished-awards\" target=\"_blank\">Distinguished Alumni Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The award was established to acknowledge individuals who have helped shape the development of a graduate culture and community as a means of supporting the research, scholarship, academic and professional pursuits of graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations can emphasize a variety of ways in which individuals have been committed to building a thriving and vital community of researchers and scholars at the graduate level, such as:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 advancing graduate program development<br \/>\n\u2022 leading new initiatives for academic and professional development of graduate students<br \/>\n\u2022 creating opportunities to build graduate culture across faculties<br \/>\n\u2022 opening pathways for collaboration and partnership between faculty and students across institutions<br \/>\n\u2022 being a champion of graduate student research and scholarship to increase internal and external awareness.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the award will be honoured at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/homecoming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Homecoming<\/a> Saturday, Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Brock, the faculty has led the emergence of a graduate culture through which we can create an all-important sense of community within the dynamic diversity of our 45 graduate programs,&#8221; says Mike Plyley, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies.<br \/>\n&#8220;We want to honour our graduates who also place a high value on the existence and continued development of a graduate culture as an important feature of the graduate experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information about the award criteria and the online application process is <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/graduate-studies\/alumni-supporters\/alumni-award\" target=\"_self\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations will close June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Graduate Studies invites nominations for its 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1253,607,1195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27678"}],"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=27678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27682,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27678\/revisions\/27682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}