{"id":90740,"date":"2024-02-06T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=90740"},"modified":"2024-02-06T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T22:17:15","slug":"ontario-ministers-visits-highlight-student-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/02\/ontario-ministers-visits-highlight-student-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Ministers\u2019 visits highlight student achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock students were celebrated for their work on Black History Month\/African Heritage Month programming and for their entrepreneurial spirit when the University welcomed the Honourable Jill Dunlop, Minister of Colleges and Universities, and the Honourable Nina Tangri, Associate Minister of Small Business, to campus on Thursday, Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlop, alongside Parliamentary Assistant Natalie Pierre and Member of Provincial Parliament for Niagara West Sam Oosterhoff, met with students and staff in the Black Student Success Centre (BSSC) to learn about the services and resources it provides to Brock students as well as the programming organized in honour of Black History Month\/African Heritage Month.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/01\/black-history-and-african-heritage-to-be-the-focus-of-month-long-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">month-long celebration<\/a> kicked off with an <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/seen-and-heard\/celebration-of-black-history-month-african-heritage-month-begins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event in Rankin Family Pavilion<\/a> where Dunlop and Oosterhoff shared remarks on behalf of the Government of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, Tangri toured the Brock Library Makerspace and the Brock LINC to learn about resources available to support students and community members through their innovation journeys. 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From left: Samrath Singh, Brock University Graduate Students\u2019 Association (GSA) Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion; Rakha Zabin, GSA President; Tangri; Lesley Rigg, Brock University President and Vice-Chancellor; and Alyssa Hall, Brock University Students\u2019 Union Vice-President External Affairs.\" data-featherlight=\"image\" class=\"gallery-1972718438\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/nina-tangri_01-copy-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Five people pose side-by-side in front of a red wall with the Brock University logo on it.\">\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li class='gallery-item'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/nina-tangri_02-copy-1600x1200.jpg\" title=\"Derek Schneider (left), Makerspace Supervisor, demonstrated 3D-printed models to the Honourable Nina Tangri, Ontario Associate Minister of Small Business, when she toured the Brock Library Makerspace on Thursday, Feb. 1.\" data-featherlight=\"image\" class=\"gallery-1972718438\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/nina-tangri_02-copy-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Two people look at 3D-printed models in a library makerspace.\">\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li class='gallery-item'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BHM_58-copy-1600x1067.jpg\" title=\"The Honourable Jill Dunlop, Ontario Minister of Colleges and Universities, provides remarks during an event kicking off Black History Month\/African Heritage Month at Brock University on Thursday, Feb. 1.\" data-featherlight=\"image\" class=\"gallery-1972718438\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/BHM_58-copy-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"A woman stands at a podium in front of an audience in a sunny atrium.\">\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr style='visibility: hidden; clear: both; margin: 0;'>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock students were celebrated for their work on Black History Month\/African Heritage Month programming and for their entrepreneurial spirit when the University welcomed the Honourable Jill Dunlop, Minister of Colleges and Universities, and the Honourable Nina Tangri, Associate Minister of Small Business, to campus on Thursday, Feb. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":90743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,1],"tags":[777,806,12953,5067,591,12022,4588,13236,4609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90740"}],"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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90766,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90740\/revisions\/90766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}