{"id":45361,"date":"2017-06-16T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=45361"},"modified":"2017-06-23T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:25:11","slug":"brock-in-the-news-june-10-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/06\/brock-in-the-news-june-10-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock in the News \u2014 June 10-16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Brock\u2019s enrolment stats encouraging<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At the height of the student\u00a0registration\u00a0cycle, Brock University\u2019s growth rate for confirmed applicants is in the top four of all Ontario universities. Brock\u2019s rate of confirmations is 8.6 per cent ahead of a year ago, compared to the Ontario university average growth rate of 1.1 per cent. This top story was featured in the St. Catharines Standard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Unemployment rates increasing but jobs still available<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With more than 3,500 new Brock graduates entering the workforce, Economics Professor Felice Martinello advises not to get discouraged by current unemployment rates, as these statistics are influenced by many factors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/06\/13\/job-stats-encouraging-despite-increase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">St. Catharines Standard<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Niagara homebuyer \u2018feeding frenzy\u2019 slowing down<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The local housing market has been on a hot streak and while sales are starting to slow, homes are maintaining their value.<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Goodman School of Business Professor\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Fayez Elayan<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> explains in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2017\/06\/15\/niagara-home-buyer-feeding-frenzy-slowing-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">St. Catharines Standard<\/span><\/a> why Niagara is just now catching up to average home values in Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a look at some of the media coverage Brock University received this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":40400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6,1,38],"tags":[2525,5453,594,4301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45361"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45364,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45361\/revisions\/45364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}