{"id":43851,"date":"2017-03-02T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43851"},"modified":"2017-03-02T17:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:40:19","slug":"brock-joins-academics-without-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/03\/brock-joins-academics-without-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock joins Academics Without Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock University has become an official member of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awb-usf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academics Without Borders (AWB)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an organization that aims to improve and expand higher education in developing nations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through AWB, volunteers work on projects that foster the skills and expertise needed in a variety of sectors, including health care, education, agriculture, infrastructure and business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock International Services is available to help facilitate AWB opportunities for the University\u2019s faculty and graduate students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To receive up-to-date announcements about upcoming\u00a0projects, e-mail <\/span><a href=\"mailto:brockint1@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brockint1@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academics Without Borders works in all disciplines and areas of instruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The non-governmental Canadian organization is based in Montreal with volunteers working around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty opportunities are also available abroad through Brock\u2019s various partner institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-international\/international-partnerships\/opportunities-abroad-partners\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Services opportunities abroad webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University has become an official member of Academics Without Borders (AWB), an organization that aims to improve and expand higher education in developing nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43851"}],"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=43851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43852,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43851\/revisions\/43852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}