{"id":11819,"date":"2024-01-22T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11819"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:59:54","slug":"john-daniel-oleary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/john-daniel-oleary\/","title":{"rendered":"John Daniel O&#8217;Leary"},"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                        John Daniel O&#8217;Leary\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/John-Daniel-OLeary.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/John-Daniel-OLeary.png 173w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/John-Daniel-OLeary-160x190.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Daniel O\u2019Leary was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Friday, June 10 &#8220;in recognition of his lifelong commitment and leadership in advancing literacy among marginalized and underserved communities and his service to the unique educational opportunity offered by Frontier College.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Toronto, he studied history and political science at Carleton while playing linebacker for the Ravens football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spent a year studying with the Jesuits, teaching in schools in Chicago and Winnipeg, and he lived with the L&#8217;Arche community, assisting people with special needs. After teaching literacy in an Ontario prison, he joined Frontier College as a literacy teacher in Manitoba prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then joined the Frontier staff and, in 1990, was appointed president of the organization. His goal was to recruit university students across Canada as literacy tutors for disadvantaged and oppressed people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He now works in development at Teach for Canada and serves on the boards of the Christian Resources Centre and the Toronto Native Friendship Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G2d-_uGsdsM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF John Daniel O&#8217;Leary<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Daniel O\u2019Leary was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Friday, June 10 &#8220;in recognition of his lifelong commitment and leadership in advancing literacy among marginalized and underserved communities and his service to the unique educational opportunity offered by Frontier College.&#8221; Born in Toronto, he studied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"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-11819","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13564,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11819\/revisions\/13564"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}