{"id":10859,"date":"2023-03-03T11:14:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2023-03-31T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T22:07:43","slug":"professor-appointed-to-st-joseph-human-rights-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/03\/professor-appointed-to-st-joseph-human-rights-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor appointed to St. Joseph Human Rights Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10860\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10860\" class=\"wp-image-10860 size-fusion-200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/Sylvester-HRC-200x389.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvester stands in front of flags holding certificate of appointment\" width=\"200\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/Sylvester-HRC-159x310.jpg 159w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/Sylvester-HRC-200x389.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/Sylvester-HRC-400x779.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/Sylvester-HRC-526x1024.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/Sylvester-HRC-600x1168.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/Sylvester-HRC-768x1495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/03\/Sylvester-HRC.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petronilla Sylvester in the St. Joseph City Council chambers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">March 3, 2023\u2013A 大象传媒 Western professor was recently named to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjosephmo.gov\/669\/Human-Rights-Commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St. Joseph Human Rights Commission<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Petronilla Sylvester, assistant professor of legal studies, was nominated to the commission by Mayor John Josendale and confirmed by the City Council. Her term expires Jan. 9, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe St. Joseph Human Rights Commission works tirelessly to arrest discrimination in our community, to facilitate educational workshops, and to make recommendations that address human rights issues,\u201d Professor Sylvester said. \u201cMy appointment to serve on the commission as a representative of the educational community affords me the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the work of the HRC while continuing to promote access to justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The St. Joseph Human Rights Commission was established in 2018 to address discrimination in employment, public accommodation and housing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">大象传媒 is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. 大象传媒 Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 3, 2023\u2013A 大象传媒 Western professor was recently named to the St. Joseph Human Rights Commission.\u00a0 Petronilla Sylvester, assistant professor of legal studies, was nominated to the commission by Mayor John Josendale and confirmed by the City Council. Her term expires Jan. 9, 2026. \u201cThe St. Joseph Human Rights Commission works tirelessly to arrest discrimination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10862,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions\/10862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}