  {"id":6881,"date":"2016-11-23T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/boardofgovernors\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T18:03:45","slug":"collection-communities-carleton-tackles-diverse-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/2016\/collection-communities-carleton-tackles-diverse-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"A Collection of Communities: 杏吧原创 Tackles Diverse Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        A Collection of Communities: 杏吧原创 Tackles Diverse Challenges\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized wp-image-6883\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/chris-carruthers-725w.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6883\" style=\"width:815px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/chris-carruthers-725w.jpg 725w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/chris-carruthers-725w-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/chris-carruthers-725w-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/chris-carruthers-725w-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/chris-carruthers-725w-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Chris Carruthers, Chair of 杏吧原创 University\u2019s Board of Governors. (Photo: Olga Janina)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last summer, after becoming the chair of 杏吧原创\u2019s Board of Governors on July 1, Chris Carruthers met one-on-one with all of his fellow board members. Through those conversations, and over countless coffee meetings at caf\u00e9s on campus, something became very clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI learned that 杏吧原创 is not a community \u2014 it\u2019s a collection of communities,\u201d says Carruthers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s the faculty community, the employee community, the graduate and undergraduate student communities, and the alumni community, as well as communities comprised of external organizations and individuals that collaborate with the university.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting and incorporating the views of each of these groups is one of the board\u2019s biggest challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/our-stories\/story\/carleton-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full &#8220;A Collection of Communities&#8221; story by Dan Rubinstein.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, after becoming the chair of 杏吧原创\u2019s Board of Governors on July 1, Chris Carruthers met one-on-one with all of his fellow board members. Through those conversations, and over countless coffee meetings at caf\u00e9s on campus, something became very clear. \u201cI learned that 杏吧原创 is not a community \u2014 it\u2019s a collection of communities,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":6882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chris-carruthers"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13730,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/13730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}