{"id":63548,"date":"2020-01-28T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=63548"},"modified":"2020-01-28T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:38:11","slug":"1834-fellowship-conference-to-take-place-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/01\/1834-fellowship-conference-to-take-place-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"1834 Fellowship conference to take place at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, Brock University will be host of the first-ever 1834 Fellowship conference, which will take place this July.<\/p>\n<p>The week-long conference in July (dates to be confirmed) will prepare 20 high-potential black youth for civic leadership roles and support them in their skills and career development.<\/p>\n<p>Run by a non-profit organization called Operation Black Vote Canada, the organization supports the election of black people to public office through\u00a0involvement in Canada&#8217;s government, agencies, boards, commissions, civil service and in Canada&#8217;s political process at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>There is no cost for successful recipients to participate. Applicants must submit their online submission by Friday, Jan. 31 with supporting documents due by Thursday, Feb 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Permanent resident or Canadian citizenship<\/li>\n<li>18-25 years of age<\/li>\n<li>Black\/African descent<\/li>\n<li>Available for official launch in Ottawa (Travel and accommodations provided)<\/li>\n<li>Available for weekend policy taster seminar and networking events (monthly events at Ryerson University, beginning in the fall)<\/li>\n<li>Available for a one-week intensive policy program at Brock University in the month of July (Travel and accommodations provided)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fellows will be able to demonstrate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A clear understanding of the organizational environment in which public policy is developed<\/li>\n<li>Practical knowledge of the key issues that policy analysts, policy makers and advocacy practitioners face in influencing, developing or implementing policy<\/li>\n<li>A clear understanding of the Canadian policy development process in theory and in practice<\/li>\n<li>An ability to apply their theoretical and practical understanding regarding the creation and implementation of public policy as a civic leader<\/li>\n<li>A deepened confidence in their ability and competency to successfully pursue civic leadership roles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/obvc.ca\/1834fellowship\/#1576014579939-eeb8bb73-cab8\">Operation Black Vote Canada website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the University&#8217;s history, Brock will host the 1834 Fellowship conference, which will take place this July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,4],"tags":[8630,8631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63548"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63555,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63548\/revisions\/63555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}