{"id":2801,"date":"2007-08-27T12:27:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T20:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/08\/canada-the-new-idea-of-a-university\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T20:27:24","slug":"canada-the-new-idea-of-a-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/08\/canada-the-new-idea-of-a-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: The (new) idea of a university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globe and Mail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20070825.BKUNIV25\/TPStory\/Education\">The (new) idea of a university<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Educated citizens and democratic governance go together like the proverbial horse and carriage: They depend on and sustain one another. Without educated citizens, democracy is little more than a sham and likely a cover for elite rule. And without democratic opportunities and outlets, an educated populace will have little incentive or impetus to contribute to society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globe and Mail: The (new) idea of a university Educated citizens and democratic governance go together like the proverbial horse and carriage: They depend on and sustain one another. Without educated citizens, democracy is little more than a sham and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2007\/08\/canada-the-new-idea-of-a-university\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}