{"id":41492,"date":"2016-10-12T17:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T21:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41492"},"modified":"2016-10-13T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:41:33","slug":"former-trustees-given-honorary-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/10\/former-trustees-given-honorary-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Former trustees given honorary positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three former University trustees who recently concluded their terms on the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/university-secretariat\/board-of-trustees\">Board of Trustees<\/a> have been appointed as Trustees Emeriti.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Robertson, Allan Cole (a member of Brock\u2019s first-ever graduating class in 1967) and Nick DiPietro have all accepted the honorary position and title after their nominations were approved by the Board at its Sept. 29 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>All three of them retired as trustees last June 30. Robertson had served 10 years on the Board, including terms as Chair and Vice-Chair. DePietro, also a former Vice-Chair, was first elected to the Board in 2010, as was Cole. I<span class=\"s1\">n addition to serving on the Board, all three trustees have been generous supporters of the University and have provided considerable support for Brock initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The title of <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/36660\">Trustee Emeritus<\/a> was established in 2007 as a way for the Board to recognize distinguished and meritorious service from people who had served lengthy terms on the Board.\u00a0There have now been <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/38410\">18 such appointments<\/a> to the non-voting role that allows the Board to consult with and seek advice from people with considerable experience at Brock and in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three former University trustees who recently concluded their terms on the Board of Trustees have been appointed as Trustees Emeriti. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,54,4,4523],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41492"}],"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=41492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41503,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41492\/revisions\/41503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}