{"id":18398,"date":"2018-08-29T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=18398"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:19","slug":"history-students-meet-with-ontario-minister-raymond-cho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2018\/history-students-meet-with-ontario-minister-raymond-cho\/","title":{"rendered":"History Students Meet with Ontario Minister Raymond Cho"},"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                        History Students Meet with Ontario Minister Raymond Cho\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University History students Hollis Peirce and Jason Crozier were on hand when Ontario\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/ministry-seniors-accessibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minister of Seniors and Accessibility, Raymond Cho<\/a>, toured Carleton University to get an inside look at how Carleton is pushing the boundaries of accessibility on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is an excerpt of the article by&nbsp;Matt Gergyek entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/raymond-cho-accessibility-inclusion\/\">Minister Raymond Cho Praises Carleton\u2019s Accessibility and Inclusion Efforts<\/a>&#8221; published by the Carleton Newsroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tour held on Aug. 22 was organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/pmc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC)<\/a>, which provides academic and support services, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research, Education, Accessibility and Design (READ)<\/a> initiative. It was designed to highlight, celebrate and cultivate Carleton\u2019s expertise, leadership and collaboration with the community to create greater accessibility and a more inclusive world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cho also had the chance to meet some students with disabilities at the Carleton Disability Awareness Centre (CDAC) run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cusaonline.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carleton University Students\u2019 Association (CUSA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCarleton was the first place I was in an educational setting on my own,\u201d said Hollis Peirce, a <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carleton History<\/a> student who spoke about the value of the centre. \u201cCDAC was a big part of helping me get incorporated into the student life . . . I hope other universities across Canada are able to follow suit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University History students Hollis Peirce and Jason Crozier were on hand when Ontario\u2019s Minister of Seniors and Accessibility, Raymond Cho, toured Carleton University to get an inside look at how Carleton is pushing the boundaries of accessibility on campus. Below is an excerpt of the article by&nbsp;Matt Gergyek entitled &#8220;Minister Raymond Cho Praises Carleton\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18399,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398\/revisions\/18399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}