{"id":46471,"date":"2017-09-03T05:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T09:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46471"},"modified":"2017-09-03T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T18:45:23","slug":"president-sends-out-a-welcome-as-students-flock-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/president-sends-out-a-welcome-as-students-flock-to-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Presidential welcome as students flock to Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 18,000 students descending on campus this week to begin\u00a0the new Fall term, Dr. Gervan Fearon prepared his first-ever welcome message as Brock University President, focusing on human rights, mutual respect and the importance of being responsible citizens both on and off campus.<\/p>\n<p>Fearon, who became President and Vice-Chancellor on Aug. 1, told incoming students they had chosen well in selecting a university with Brock\u2019s reputation for academic strength, innovative research and exceptional student experience.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Brock is a people-focused institution, and said it is everyone\u2019s responsibility to promote a University that is inclusive, celebrates diversity, does not tolerate discrimination and makes a priority of protecting human rights and personal security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look out for you, and for each other,\u201d he said. \u201cYour safety and security are part of our commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6HE__G5DTXo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fearon encouraged anyone with questions or inquiries about fairness, harassment or discrimination to contact Brock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Human Rights and Equity<\/a> (HRE). The HRE website has clear directions on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/human-rights\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contact HRE staff<\/a> in confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Persons with concerns about personal safety or security should contact <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/campus-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campus Security Services<\/a>, which is dedicated to ensuring a safe and welcoming learning environment at Brock. For 24-hour emergency response, call (905) 688-5550 ext 3200. Campus Security can also be contacted through the Brock Mobile App, which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-mobile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">download for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 18,000 students descending on campus this week to begin the new Fall term, Dr. Gervan Fearon prepared his first-ever welcome message as Brock University President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,7,3319,4052,1],"tags":[182,3308,5398,5746],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46471"}],"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=46471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46480,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46471\/revisions\/46480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}