{"id":41190,"date":"2016-09-22T13:03:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41190"},"modified":"2016-09-23T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:19:51","slug":"a-statement-from-brock-university-and-dr-martin-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/09\/a-statement-from-brock-university-and-dr-martin-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"A statement from Brock University and Dr. Martin Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is with regret that Dr. Martin Singer and Brock University announce a joint decision not to proceed with Dr. Singer\u2019s appointment as Brock University\u2019s Acting Provost for the 2016-17 academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Singer is a respected Canadian academic leader who had retired in 2015 after a career of more than 40 years as a professor at two distinguished Canadian universities, more than 20 of them as dean and provost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier this year he was approached by Brock\u2019s then-incoming president, Wendy Cukier, about serving as Brock\u2019s Acting Provost during what would have been Dr. Cukier\u2019s first year in office. In June 2016, Dr. Singer\u2019s appointment as Brock\u2019s Acting Provost was approved by the Board of Trustees. However, the Aug. 29 announcement that Dr. Cukier would not be Brock\u2019s next President significantly changed the context of, and expectations for, the Acting Provost position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is our shared view that Brock\u2019s Acting President should have the ability to choose the Acting Provost for 2016-17, with a bias toward someone who is thoroughly familiar with the Brock context and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Signed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Martin Singer<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Brian Hutchings, Acting President and Vice-Chancellor, Brock University<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with regret that Dr. Martin Singer and Brock University announce a joint decision not to proceed with Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190"}],"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=41190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41193,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41190\/revisions\/41193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}