{"id":52080,"date":"2018-06-28T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=52080"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T20:07:24","slug":"donation-enhances-matheson-bursary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/06\/donation-enhances-matheson-bursary\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation enhances Matheson bursary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Whether they studied under him or spent time hitting the books in the learning commons bearing his name, the lives of many students have been touched by William Matheson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">By the time he retired in 1998, Bill Matheson had devoted 30 years at Brock, leaving a deep mark as a scholar, a trailblazing senior administrator and a popular, award-winning teacher. He indelibly impacted students, and helped guide a fledgling University through its crucial formative years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Matheson was Brock\u2019s first Dean of Social Sciences, first Vice-President, Academic and an award-winning Political Science teacher who was known for his passion for supporting students in their academic pursuits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">That legacy has continued on following his death in December 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Matheson left a gift to the University in his will to enhance the William Matheson Bursary \u2014 an award established in his honour upon his retirement from Brock. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The bursary is given to full-time Political Science students in financial need who have an average of 75 per cent or higher in their most recent year of study.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Once awarded to a single student per year, Matheson\u2019s gift has opened the door to have more than one recipient chosen annually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cStudent awards and bursaries are essential in supporting students in their access to post-secondary education, their success in their studies and their ability to cross the stage for Convocation,\u201d said Pamela Shanks, Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations. \u201cWe are truly grateful to donors who leave a gift in their will to support student awards, which profoundly help and benefit students throughout their Brock journey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For more information on making a gift in your will to the University, please contact Tracy Geoffroy at 905-688-5550, ext. 4519 or <a href=\"mailto:tgeoffroy@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tgeoffroy@brocku.ca<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether they studied under him or spent time hitting the books in the learning commons bearing his name, the lives of many students have been touched by William Matheson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,1,4,4523],"tags":[4783,283,6111,818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080"}],"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=52080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52081,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions\/52081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}