{"id":11874,"date":"2024-01-23T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T15:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11874"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:00:43","slug":"diane-morrison","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/diane-morrison\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Morrison"},"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                        Diane Morrison\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=\"194\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Diane-Morrison.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Diane-Morrison.png 194w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Diane-Morrison-160x195.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Diane Morrison was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 10 \u201cin recognition of a lifetime of service dedicated to improving the lives of homeless and marginalized people in the Ottawa-Carleton community.\u201d<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diane Morrison was a school teacher for 15 years before becoming the executive director of the Ottawa Mission \u2013 a homeless shelter in the City of Ottawa. Ms. Morrison has revolutionized the care provided to<br>\nmarginalized citizens in her community. In her role as executive director of the Ottawa Mission, an organization that provides food and shelter to homeless men and women, she dramatically increased the scope of available inner-city services. Since 1991, the Ottawa Mission grew from having 75 beds to 235.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over two decades, she founded a learning centre, a six-month residential rehabilitation centre, an on-site dental clinic, and initiated a palliative care unit connected to the shelter, the first of its kind in North America. Her dedication and innovation have made her a pillar in city-wide efforts to alleviate hardship for disadvantaged citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, she sits on the board of the Ottawa Food Bank. She also volunteers at a local school where she helps young children learn to read.<\/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=0A1sfGnc_ZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Diane Morrison<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Morrison was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 10 \u201cin recognition of a lifetime of service dedicated to improving the lives of homeless and marginalized people in the Ottawa-Carleton community.\u201d Diane Morrison was a school teacher for 15 years before becoming the executive [&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-11874","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11874","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=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13568,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11874\/revisions\/13568"}],"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=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}