{"id":33357,"date":"2015-04-17T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=33357"},"modified":"2015-04-20T08:26:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:26:49","slug":"blaikie-prepares-to-step-down-as-dean-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/04\/blaikie-prepares-to-step-down-as-dean-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaikie prepares to step down as Dean of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33360\" title=\"brock-tower1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/brock-tower1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"brock-tower1\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following her decision last fall not to seek a second term, Fiona Blaikie will step down this year as Dean of Brock&#8217;s Faculty of Education when she completes her five-year term. Blaikie will take a one-year administrative leave that customarily follows a decanal term, before returning to the Faculty of Education as a professor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33361\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33361\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33361\" title=\"fiona-blaikie1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fiona-blaikie1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fiona Blaikie\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona Blaikie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A scholar known for her expertise in art education, Blaikie came to Brock in 2010 from Lakehead University, where she had served as Interim Director of Undergraduate Programs in Education.<\/p>\n<p>Brock University Provost Neil McCartney today said Blaikie&#8217;s leadership and insights have been invaluable at a time when university administrators must deal with budget pressures and shifting government policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fiona has remained dedicated to the needs of the Dean&#8217;s office,&#8221; said McCartney. &#8220;The University is very grateful for her commitment and guidance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCartney said the University will hold a social appreciation gathering for Blaikie sometime in May, on a date to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>He said the University will also be launching a full decanal search, and expects to announce an interim dean for the faculty of Education later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following her decision last fall not to seek a second term, Fiona Blaikie will step down this year as Dean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[98,2917],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33357"}],"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=33357"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33365,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33357\/revisions\/33365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}