{"id":51594,"date":"2018-06-06T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=51594"},"modified":"2018-06-07T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:48:55","slug":"convocation-preview-thursday-june-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/06\/convocation-preview-thursday-june-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocation preview: Thursday, June 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Spring Convocation continues Thursday with ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for the Goodman School of Business.<\/p>\n<p>Professor of Accounting Pascale Lapointe-Antunes, the Faculty\u2019s Excellence in Teaching Award recipient, will deliver the Convocation address in the morning ceremony. Lapointe-Antunes was recently given the title of Fellow and FCPA designation by the Council of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, the highest honour in the accounting profession.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering the Convocation address in the afternoon will be Bill Haines, a high-profile Goodman School of Business alumnus who recently retired as Managing Director and Global Head of Rates Trading at RBC Capital Markets after a lengthy career in the financial industry.<\/p>\n<p>All of the Convocation ceremonies are free to attend and no tickets are required. Parking is free for guests throughout the week. Free Wi-Fi is also being provided to guests throughout Convocation week. The BrockEvents Wi-fi network can be accessed using the username: BROCKGRAD and password: welcome2brock!<\/p>\n<p>For those who can\u2019t make it to the Brock Campus for Spring Convocation, all of the ceremonies will be streamed at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/livestream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brocku.ca\/livestream<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning\u2019s Convocation ceremony will also be streamed live on the video wall in the new Goodman School of Business Atrium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s Spring Convocation continues Thursday with ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for the Goodman School of Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,39],"tags":[156,594,1759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51594"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51601,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51594\/revisions\/51601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}