{"id":26460,"date":"2021-05-11T11:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=26460"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:08","slug":"prof-danika-littlechild-receives-cusas-teaching-excellence-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2021\/prof-danika-littlechild-receives-cusas-teaching-excellence-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Danika Littlechild Receives CUSA\u2019s Teaching Excellence Award"},"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                        Prof. Danika Littlechild Receives CUSA\u2019s Teaching Excellence Award\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright wp-image-26104 size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Danika-Littlechild-e1618238855211-400x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Danika-Littlechild-e1618238855211-400x400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Danika-Littlechild-e1618238855211-160x160.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Danika-Littlechild-e1618238855211-240x240.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Danika-Littlechild-e1618238855211-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Danika-Littlechild-e1618238855211-360x360.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Danika-Littlechild-e1618238855211.jpeg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Professor Danika Littlechild<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/danika-littlechild\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professor Danika Littlechild<\/a> has been named a recipient of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cusaonline.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carleton University Student\u2019s Association (CUSA)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cusaonline.ca\/about\/awards\/teachingexcellence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teaching Excellent Award<\/a>! This annual award is presented to an instructor who has demonstrated an outstanding ability to impart knowledge, consult students, and invoke enthusiasm and participation from their students. This student-nominated award is open to all teaching staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>&#8220;Hai Hai, nan\u00e2skomtin, I express my thanks and sincere gratitude to all the amazing students I have had the privilege of working with since I began my new path as a professor at Carleton University.&#8221; \u2013 Professor Danika Littlechild<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Littlechild joined the Department in January 2020 teaching in the area of environmental and social justice. She is frequently asked to be a guest lecturer in other faculties at Carleton as well as other institutions. Prior to joining Carleton, Professor Littlechild practiced law in Canada for nearly two decades and advised Indigenous Peoples across Canada and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations Professor Littlechild on receiving this award from Carleton\u2019s students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Danika Littlechild has been named a recipient of Carleton University Student\u2019s Association (CUSA) Teaching Excellent Award! This annual award is presented to an instructor who has demonstrated an outstanding ability to impart knowledge, consult students, and invoke enthusiasm and participation from their students. This student-nominated award is open to all teaching staff. &#8220;Hai Hai, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-teaching-awards"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26486,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460\/revisions\/26486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}