{"id":9275,"date":"2019-06-26T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/boardofgovernors\/?page_id=9275"},"modified":"2025-10-07T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:35:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"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                        About\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"board-composition\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Board Composition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/boardofgovernors\/about\/board-members\/\">Board of Governors consists of 32 diverse members<\/a> who uniquely understand higher education and its force for good. As the university\u2019s corporate body, the Board oversees budgetary and infrastructure decisions and appoints the school\u2019s President and Vice-Chancellor, and other key senior executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/Board-Composition-1.png\" alt=\"4 students 2 faculty 2 senators 2 alumni 2 staff and 18 community members. Ex-offico members the President and Chancellor\" class=\"wp-image-8342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Board-Composition-1.png 692w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Board-Composition-1-160x63.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Board-Composition-1-240x94.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Board-Composition-1-400x157.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/157\/Board-Composition-1-360x141.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"board-committees\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Board Committees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Board exercises its oversight through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/boardofgovernors\/board-committees\/\">six standing committees<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Executive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Audit and Risk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Building Program<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Governance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advancement and University Relations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the Board appoints four of its members to serve as representatives on Carleton University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/\">Senate<\/a>. Only two of these representatives are allowed to vote at each meeting of Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board Composition Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;Board of Governors consists of 32 diverse members who uniquely understand higher education and its force for good. As the university\u2019s corporate body, the Board oversees budgetary and infrastructure decisions and appoints the school\u2019s President and Vice-Chancellor, and other key senior executives. Board Committees The Board exercises its oversight through&nbsp;six standing committees: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-9275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"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=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13738,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9275\/revisions\/13738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/boardofgovernors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}