{"id":32316,"date":"2015-02-12T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=32316"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T15:11:29","slug":"website-launched-for-presidential-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/02\/website-launched-for-presidential-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Website launched for presidential search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32335\" title=\"prez-search-web-graphic\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/prez-search-web-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"prez-search-web-graphic\" width=\"495\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brock University has launched a new <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/presidential-search\">website<\/a> to help in the search for a President and Vice-Chancellor to succeed Jack Lightstone, whose second and final five-year term will expire in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential search is overseen by a 12-member search committee that was assembled last November. A search consultant, Caldwell Partners, has also been retained.<\/p>\n<p>The procedures for a presidential search at Brock are set out in the Faculty Handbook, and are expected to take place over a number of months, starting with a series of broad-based consultations with parties across the University that will inform the development of a candidate profile.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Robertson, immediate past chair of the Brock Board of Trustees who is also chair of the Advisory Committee on the Presidency, said the website is a vital tool for the task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hiring a president is one of the most important things we do,&#8221; said Robertson. &#8220;It was important for us to have a website that captures all of the critical information in one place, so people can use it as an authoritative reference point for the whole process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For updates over the coming months, bookmark and check in on the website brocku.ca\/presidential-search<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University has launched a new website to help in the search for a President and Vice-Chancellor to succeed Jack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32316"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32316"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32354,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32316\/revisions\/32354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}