{"id":49572,"date":"2018-02-28T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49572"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:09:26","slug":"brock-aims-to-increase-springsummer-course-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/02\/brock-aims-to-increase-springsummer-course-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock aims to increase Spring\/Summer course accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through free parking, flexible scheduling and reduced accommodation costs, Brock University is working to make its <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/springsummer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spring\/Summer courses<\/a> more accessible than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the University\u2019s Spring\/Summer term opens Monday, March 5 with a variety of online and in-class offerings available to help students advance their education. For many students, the term is an opportunity to accelerate their degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrock\u2019s Spring\/Summer course offerings are designed to be as flexible as possible, allowing students to choose from online, blended and accelerated course formats,\u201d said Anna Lathrop, Vice-Provost, Teaching, Learning and Student Success. \u201cTogether with the option of free parking, we are hopeful that students will be able to both facilitate their degree completion and balance summer employment opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adding value to the Spring\/Summer term is a new parking model the University is rolling out to make campus more accessible for students as well as the broader Niagara community. Brock is introducing <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/parking-services\/free-parking-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free parking in Zones 1 and 2<\/a> from May 1 through Aug. 31, during which parking permits and meter receipts will not be required.<\/p>\n<p>For students who wish to stay on campus during the Spring\/Summer term, Brock is also offering <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/residence\/apply\/springsummer-residence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduced residence rates<\/a> between May and August. This will allow students from outside of Niagara or those from another institution looking to take a course by Letter of Permission, the opportunity to live on site while studying.<\/p>\n<p>The Spring\/Summer term provides students the chance to get ahead on their degree, pick up a context requirement or elective that is in high demand in the fall, retake a course to improve their mark or take courses in support of a change in major.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of Spring\/Summer courses is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/springsummer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brocku.ca\/springsummer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through free parking, flexible scheduling and reduced accommodation costs, Brock University is working to make its Spring\/Summer courses more accessible than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":49575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3319,4052,1,4],"tags":[6354,3461,276,121,1635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49572"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49576,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49572\/revisions\/49576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}