{"id":5905,"date":"2010-10-25T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2010-10-25T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T18:36:43","slug":"delegates-from-caribbean-and-latin-america-visit-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/10\/delegates-from-caribbean-and-latin-america-visit-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Delegates from Caribbean and Latin America visit Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5904\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5904\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5904 \" title=\"Nadia Williamson\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/elap.jpg\" alt=\"Nadia Williamson, program manager for the International Scholarships Program at the Canadian Bureau for International Education, speaks to an international audience at Brock.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nadia Williamson, program manager for the International Scholarships Program at the Canadian Bureau for International Education, speaks at Brock.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Representatives from 20 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America know more about Brock after a visit hosted by Brock International last week.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 senior representatives visited Oct. 19 to strengthen and develop partnerships. The delegation, formally called the \u201cEmerging Leaders in the Americas Collaboration Mission,&#8221; was led by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and the Canadian Bureau for International Education.<\/p>\n<p>The group spent a few hours with Brock faculty and staff learning about each other and possibilities for collaboration. Brock has already established institutional partnerships with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pedagogica.edu.sv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Universidad Pedagogica de El Salvador<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/puj-portal.javeriana.edu.co\/portal\/page\/portal\/PORTAL_VERSION_2009_2010\/en_home\" target=\"_blank\">Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Colombia<\/a>, both of whom were represented.<\/p>\n<p>Brock has already welcomed 10 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarships.gc.ca\/elap-eng.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Emerging Leaders in the Americas<\/a> (ELAP) scholarship students from Colombia, Mexico and The Bahamas since 2008. More will arrive next year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5906\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5906\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5906  \" title=\"ELAP delegates and faculty\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/elap2.jpg\" alt=\"Delegates and Brock faculty listen to a welcome address by President Jack Lightstone.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delegates and Brock faculty listen to a welcome address by President Jack Lightstone.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock International hosted representatives from 20 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905"}],"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=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5908,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}