{"id":807735,"date":"2026-07-17T11:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807735\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:39:15","slug":"mun-prof-calling-on-ottawa-to-step-in-and-reimagine-harlow-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807735\/","title":{"rendered":"MUN Prof Calling on Ottawa to Step In and \u2018Reimagine\u2019 Harlow Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MUN’s Harlow Campus (Memorial University)<\/p>\n

A professor at MUN\u2019s Grenfell Campus is urging the federal government to step in and make the Harlow campus<\/a> a \u201cbeacon of connection\u201d and not \u201ca missed opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Memorial University announced earlier this year <\/a>that it is divesting itself of a number of pieces of property including the Harlow campus \u2013 established in the UK in 1969.<\/p>\n

Dr. Gerard Curtis has written Prime Minister Mark Carney and other federal officials to help maintain the \u201cgrowing\u201d and \u201cmeaningful links\u201d between Canada and the UK <\/a>through the Harlow campus over the last half century.<\/p>\n

Curtis is imploring federal leaders to \u201cstep in and help reimagine Harlow Campus\u201d as a \u201claunch pad for stronger international relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MUN\u2019s Harlow Campus (Memorial University)<\/p>\n

He maintains that the cost of maintaining Harlow would be \u201cminiscule\u201d but the rewards \u201cinvaluable.\u201d He believes there\u2019s time to work something out.<\/p>\n

He told VOCM Open Line with Brian Callahan that \u201cwe\u2019ve been told it\u2019s to be sold off August 31st, but in fact, they can\u2019t sell it off right away, because they have to get certification from the Canadian federal government before they can begin that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat has to be cleared so, that\u2019s probably going to take a few months. So then on top of that, once they try to sell it off they have to offer it to another educational institution for six to nine months before they can put it up for private sale. So that\u2019s extending the timeframes out a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MUN’s Harlow Campus (Memorial University) A professor at MUN\u2019s Grenfell Campus is urging the federal government to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,20739,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-807735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-ottawa","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}