{"id":11938,"date":"2024-02-05T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11938"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:50:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:50:49","slug":"joy-harvie-maclaren","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/joy-harvie-maclaren\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Harvie Maclaren (New Sun)"},"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                        Joy Harvie Maclaren (New Sun)\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=\"162\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Joy-Harvie-Maclaren-New-Sun.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Joy-Harvie-Maclaren-New-Sun.png 162w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Joy-Harvie-Maclaren-New-Sun-160x196.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Joy Harvie Maclaren (New Sun) was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 8, &#8220;in recognition of outstanding contributions to Carleton University, the advancement of minority rights and support of Aboriginal and Inuit culture and education.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Carleton University Board of Governors member, Joy Harvie Maclaren has spent her life giving back to her community. She was a founding member of several organizations, including the Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, the Community Foundation of Ottawa, the Hospice at Maycourt and the McClure Centre for adults with mental and physical disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has given generously to Carleton towards the creation of numerous awards for financially disadvantaged students. In 1995, she was presented with her Aboriginal name &#8220;New Sun&#8221; by elders from the Blackfoot of Alberta, the Mohawk of Quebec and the Ojibway of Ontario. She established the New Sun Awards &#8211; educational bursaries for Aboriginal university students across Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Sun Aboriginal conferences are held annually at Carleton and the Blue Quills First Nations College in Alberta. The Joy Maclaren Adaptive Technology Centre is located in Carleton&#8217;s MacOdrum Library and provides a study area for students with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2005, she received the Founders Award, Carleton&#8217;s highest nonacademic honour. She was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010. She earned her B.Sc. and received an honorary degree from McGill University and remains an active alumna.<\/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=3C1kgL0CHVM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Joy Harvie Maclaren<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Harvie Maclaren (New Sun) was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 9:30 a.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 8, &#8220;in recognition of outstanding contributions to Carleton University, the advancement of minority rights and support of Aboriginal and Inuit culture and education.&#8221; Former Carleton University Board of Governors member, Joy Harvie [&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-11938","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11938","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=11938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13532,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11938\/revisions\/13532"}],"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=11938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}