{"id":86594,"date":"2023-02-24T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=86594"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:17","slug":"carleton-rescinds-hdr-turpel-lafond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2023\/carleton-rescinds-hdr-turpel-lafond\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement: Carleton Rescinds Honorary Doctorate of Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond"},"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                        Statement: Carleton Rescinds Honorary Doctorate of Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University has rescinded the honorary degree awarded to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond in 2019. In accordance with the university&#8217;s policies and procedures, the University Senate passed the motion to rescind on February 24, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recommendation from the Senate&#8217;s Honorary Degrees committee followed a process that included consultations with the university&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/education-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indigenous Education Council<\/a> and a careful review of all the information publicly available. The evidence that emerged about disputed claims to both Indigenous identity and academic credentials\/accolades was deemed to outweigh the accomplishments that originally warranted granting the degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton&#8217;s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and to better relationships with Indigenous Peoples on- and off-campus is operationalized in our <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/indigenous\/kinamagawin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kin\u00e0m\u00e0gawin (Learning Together) Indigenous strategy<\/a>, which was approved by both Senate and the Board of Governors in 2020. The implementation of the 41 Kin\u00e0m\u00e0gawin Calls to Action is an ongoing priority for the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carleton Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University has rescinded the honorary degree awarded to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond in 2019. In accordance with the university&#8217;s policies and procedures, the University Senate passed the motion to rescind on February 24, 2023. The recommendation from the Senate&#8217;s Honorary Degrees committee followed a process that included consultations with the university&#8217;s Indigenous Education Council and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":78650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86594","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=86594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86598,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86594\/revisions\/86598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}