{"id":50995,"date":"2018-10-19T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=50995"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:41","slug":"senate-rescinds-honorary-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/senate-rescinds-honorary-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Rescinds Honorary Degree"},"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                        Senate Rescinds Honorary Degree\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>In accordance with its internal policy and procedures, the Senate of 杏吧原创 University has unanimously voted to rescind the honorary degree awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision by 杏吧原创 Senate\u2019s comes after the House of Commons voted unanimously on Sept. 20, 2018 to declare that the ethnic cleansing campaign perpetuated against the Rohingya Muslims was an act of genocide by Myanmar\u2019s military. The House subsequently voted on Sept. 27, 2018 to revoke the honorary citizenship awarded to Suu Kyi. This decision was affirmed by a vote in the Canadian Senate on Oct. 2, 2018.&nbsp;&nbsp; No honorary Canadian citizenship had ever been revoked by Parliament prior to this decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university\u2019s policy states: \u201cIn rare and exceptional circumstances, where the behaviour of an individual has caused significant concern, the Honorary Degrees Committee has the right to review and recommend to Senate the rescinding of an honorary degree.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In accordance with its internal policy and procedures, the Senate of 杏吧原创 University has unanimously voted to rescind the honorary degree awarded to Aung San Suu Kyi in 2011. The decision by 杏吧原创 Senate\u2019s comes after the House of Commons voted unanimously on Sept. 20, 2018 to declare that the ethnic cleansing campaign perpetuated against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[1561],"class_list":["post-50995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-honorary-degree"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50999,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50995\/revisions\/50999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}