{"id":41,"date":"2012-11-06T10:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:24:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/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-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        About\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"carleton-university-retirees-association-cura\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carleton University Retirees Association (CURA)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/Dunton-Tower-1-240x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/Dunton-Tower-1-240x360.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/Dunton-Tower-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/Dunton-Tower-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/Dunton-Tower-1-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/Dunton-Tower-1-360x540.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/Dunton-Tower-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CURA is an association of retired Carleton faculty, librarians, managers and staff. All Carleton retirees are invited to join and participate in the various activities held throughout the year. The primary purpose of the organization is to maintain social contacts between former colleagues and co-workers.&nbsp; Other objectives can be summarized as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maintaining links between retirees and their former employer and facilitating ways in which retirees can play a role in the life of the university<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pursuing benefits for members<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sharing information on issues of particular interest to Carleton retirees, e.g. pensions and benefits, as well as information on broader societal issues that affect older citizens, e.g. healthy aging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advocacy on issues that are of common interest to our members<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Within our limited resources, promoting useful engagement in society by our members<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HAVING FUN!!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton University Campus Map: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/campus\/map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campus Map &#8211; Carleton University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University Retirees Association (CURA) CURA is an association of retired Carleton faculty, librarians, managers and staff. All Carleton retirees are invited to join and participate in the various activities held throughout the year. The primary purpose of the organization is to maintain social contacts between former colleagues and co-workers.&nbsp; Other objectives can be summarized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}