{"id":91130,"date":"2024-02-27T14:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T19:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=91130"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:23","slug":"opinion-board-chair-mark-arthur-on-brocks-importance-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/02\/opinion-board-chair-mark-arthur-on-brocks-importance-to-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Board Chair Mark Arthur on Brock&#8217;s importance to the community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Arthur, Chair of Brock&#8217;s Board of Trustees, wrote a piece published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/opinion\/contributors\/brock-universitys-ability-to-act-as-a-force-for-good-is-in-jeopardy\/article_474fb92d-e66c-5aab-84f6-642ce471c851.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em><\/a> about how Brock&#8217;s ability to act as a force for good across Niagara and beyond is in jeopardy after years of financial pressures that have now reached historic levels.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><em>&#8220;A little more than 60 years ago, members of the Allanburg Women\u2019s Institute rallied their neighbours to fundraise and advocate for the creation of a public university in Niagara.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview last-preview\">\n<p><em>They envisioned a university that wasn\u2019t just in our community, but of our community, woven into its very fabric \u2014 a university that could serve the needs of Niagara and, eventually, beyond.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/opinion\/contributors\/brock-universitys-ability-to-act-as-a-force-for-good-is-in-jeopardy\/article_474fb92d-e66c-5aab-84f6-642ce471c851.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Standard website<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Arthur, Chair of Brock&#8217;s Board of Trustees, wrote a piece published in the St. Catharines Standard about how Brock&#8217;s ability to act as a force for good across Niagara and beyond is in jeopardy after years of financial pressures that have now reached historic levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[460,9895,4301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91130"}],"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=91130"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92802,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91130\/revisions\/92802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}