{"id":48783,"date":"2018-01-10T16:07:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=48783"},"modified":"2018-01-11T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T14:35:30","slug":"brock-makes-local-students-an-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/01\/brock-makes-local-students-an-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock opens its arms to students in Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are a Niagara region high school graduate with the academic qualifications to go to university, Brock University has a place for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of its commitment to help the region\u2019s post-secondary education rates continue to grow, the University is introducing a barrier-free transition for qualified local students.<\/span><\/p>\n

The latest advance on this front is a partnership between Brock and Denis Morris Catholic High School (DM) in St. Catharines, which has resulted in an entire Grade 12 class simultaneously earning a high school and a university credit in Kinesiology.<\/span><\/p>\n

This initiative adds to financial supports already in place for high school grads attending Brock, such as the Niagara Principal\u2019s Scholarships, Brock Scholars Awards and new OSAP funding.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the DM project last fall, the Grade 12 students attended two classes each week on the Brock campus, giving them a taste of post-secondary learning as well as the growth experience of being at a university.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jamie Mandigo, Brock\u2019s Vice-Provost for Enrolment Management and International, is also a Kinesiology professor and researcher, and acted as the instructor in this project. He said the Brock-DM partnership benefits everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, we want all of the students to come to Brock,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we also want them to feel comfortable applying to post-secondary education in general, and hopefully this experience helps with that decision.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

DM\u2019s Principal, Danny Di Lorenzo, was equally enthusiastic about the opportunities the course provided for local high school students. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was groundbreaking for our students and was a very good connection between the two levels of learning,\u201d he said. \u201cThe course allowed them the opportunity to see that they could succeed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Di Lorenzo is hopeful that after getting a taste of university life many of his students will make Brock their first choice this fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a Brock graduate myself I always want to open their eyes to what a great school\u00a0<\/span>Brock is,\u201d he said. \u201cIt should be a first choice for many of our students, and the course allowed them to see what a great program Brock has.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Each September, Brock takes in about 3,000 first-year students who have just graduated from high school. About 25 per cent of them are from the Niagara region. Brock officials want to increase that level of local participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Statistics show that Niagara residents are nearly 15 per cent less likely to obtain a university certificate or degree than the average for the rest of Ontario. Mandigo said Brock\u2019s outreach efforts will help change this pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBrock is Niagara\u2019s university,\u201d he said. \u201cEducation attainment levels are a big priority for us, and we are stepping up our efforts \u2014 such as our partnership with Denis Morris \u2014 to make university education more accessible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

To continue the progress, Mandigo has a direct message for all prospective students in the region: \u201cAny Grade 12 grads in Niagara who have the qualifications to get into Brock will get a letter of acceptance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe still want out-of-region students to come here, but it is a priority for Brock to help Niagara improve its education level and human capital. Moving forward, this can only benefit the region as a whole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are a Niagara region high school graduate with the academic qualifications to go to university, Brock University has a place for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":48784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,3319,4052,1,4],"tags":[703,5459,996,4014,2774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48783"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48793,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48783\/revisions\/48793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}