{"id":7,"date":"2009-07-23T09:27:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:09:02","slug":"carleton-university-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/carleton-university-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton University Act"},"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                        Carleton University Act\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton was founded in 1942 by a group of local businessmen and senior civil servants, who formed The Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning.&nbsp; These individuals saw higher education as a worthy cause and aimed to broaden the career opportunities and the cultural horizons of ambitious young people by giving them the chance to attend university. In 1952, the provincial government confirmed the College\u2019s degree-granting privileges, and in 1957, the Act was amended to rename the institution Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/University-Act1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carleton University Act<\/a> [PDF]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton was founded in 1942 by a group of local businessmen and senior civil servants, who formed The Ottawa Association for the Advancement of Learning.&nbsp; These individuals saw higher education as a worthy cause and aimed to broaden the career opportunities and the cultural horizons of ambitious young people by giving them the chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"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-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/secretariat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}