{"id":44172,"date":"2017-03-23T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44172"},"modified":"2017-03-23T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:59:11","slug":"town-hall-on-march-31-will-discuss-brocks-new-sma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/03\/town-hall-on-march-31-will-discuss-brocks-new-sma\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Hall on March 31 will discuss Brock\u2019s new SMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">Members of the Brock community are encouraged to attend to a Town Hall meeting Friday, March 31, for a discussion about the University\u2019s next Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA) that is currently being developed with the provincial government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The meeting will be in Pond Inlet from 9:30 to 11 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">A draft version of Brock\u2019s new SMA will be posted online on Monday, March 27 for review prior to the meeting. It will be accessible through your Brock log-in ID.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">SMAs, which all Ontario universities and colleges are required negotiate with the Ontario government, are documents in which institutions identify their strengths and priorities, as well as key programs that they would like to expand.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Guidelines set out by the province call for SMAs to be updated every three years. Brock signed its first SMA with the province in 2014, and will be completing its new document this spring.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Brock community are encouraged to attend to a Town Hall meeting Friday, March 31, for a discussion about the University\u2019s next Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA) that is currently being developed with the provincial government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3319,4052,1,4],"tags":[5090,1664,1147,1420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44172"}],"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=44172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}