{"id":95549,"date":"2024-09-11T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=95549"},"modified":"2024-09-12T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:24:19","slug":"international-students-receive-community-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/09\/international-students-receive-community-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"International students receive community boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University students from Trinidad and Tobago recently spent time making community connections that link to both Niagara and their home country.<\/p>\n<p>Through an visit facilitated by Brock International, students spent time connecting with members of the St. Catharines and Regional Municipality of Niagara Twinning and Mundilization Association at a networking event Sunday, Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, the Twinning Association presented the University with a $1,000 donation to support a longstanding scholarship for Trinidad and Tobago students.<\/p>\n<p>Brock University has cultivated a strong partnership with the Twinning Association stemming from the official twinning of St. Catharines and Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. The decades-long connection has empowered the University to provide educational opportunities to Trinidadian students. The donation underscores a continued commitment to supporting students\u2019 aspirations and fostering cross-cultural exchange at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the partnership, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/twinning.ca\/brock-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twinning Association&#8217;s website<\/a>. To apply for the scholarship, the <a href=\"https:\/\/my.brocku.ca\/BrockDB\/safa_awardaccountsearch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock awards web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University students from Trinidad and Tobago recently spent time making community connections that link to both Niagara and their home country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95549"}],"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=95549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95552,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95549\/revisions\/95552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}