{"id":67629,"date":"2020-07-06T13:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=67629"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:30","slug":"carleton-congratulates-new-university-of-alberta-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2020\/carleton-congratulates-new-university-of-alberta-president\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创 Congratulates New University of Alberta President"},"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                        杏吧原创 Congratulates New University of Alberta President\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The new president at the University of Alberta is a 杏吧原创 University alumnus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/presidential-search\/bill-flanagan-biography.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Flanagan<\/a>, who became the 14<sup>th<\/sup> president of the U of A on July 1, attended 杏吧原创 as an undergraduate student, earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philosophy<\/a> in 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUpon graduating high school in Alberta, I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourcommons.ca\/杏吧原创\/PageProgram\/index-e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House of Commons Page Program<\/a>, working as a page part time while attending 杏吧原创,\u201d says Flanagan. \u201cI greatly enjoyed my undergraduate studies at 杏吧原创 and some of my fondest memories were listening to the great Stan Rogers singing at Ollie\u2019s. What could be better than that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He went on to study law at the University of Toronto, the Universit\u00e9 Paris I-Sorbonne and Columbia University before joining the Faculty of Law at Queen\u2019s University in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flanagan served as Dean of Law at Queen\u2019s from 2005 until 2019, working closely for two years with 杏吧原创 President <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benoit-Antoine Bacon<\/a>, when he was Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) at Queen\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBill is an accomplished and innovative educator, legal scholar and leader.\u201d says Bacon. \u201cI offer him my warmest congratulations and wish him the very best in his new role.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had the great pleasure of working closely with President Bacon during his time as Provost at Queen\u2019s,\u201d says Flanagan. \u201cBenoit was most generous with his wise counsel as I considered the move to the University of Alberta and I look forward to working closely with him in my new role.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new president at the University of Alberta is a 杏吧原创 University alumnus. Bill Flanagan, who became the 14th president of the U of A on July 1, attended 杏吧原创 as an undergraduate student, earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in English and Philosophy in 1982. \u201cUpon graduating high school in Alberta, I had the wonderful opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":67630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-67629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67629","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=67629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67632,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67629\/revisions\/67632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}