{"id":410,"date":"2019-06-11T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/?p=410"},"modified":"2021-03-08T00:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T00:46:55","slug":"matthew-harty-awarded-governor-generals-gold-medal-with-perfect-gpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/arts\/2019\/06\/11\/matthew-harty-awarded-governor-generals-gold-medal-with-perfect-gpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Harty awarded Governor General\u2019s Gold Medal with perfect GPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early on in his career at the Vancouver Police Department (VPD), an aspiring Matthew Harty would occasionally help in street-level undercover work during a patrol shift.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was quite young, so I was always a student, that was my story,\u201d he says remembering the start of his police career.<\/p>\n

He would give the buy money to a drug dealer, and then the signal to his colleagues when it was time to move in.<\/p>\n

Now an Inspector with the VPD, the 42-year-old Harty recently revisited his student plain-clothes role \u2014 this time actually enrolling in and completing the University of the Fraser Valley\u2019s MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice.<\/p>\n

The buzz of the bust was replaced with the reward of completing each A+ assignment along his path to a perfect 4.33 GPA graduation.<\/p>\n

That persistence led Harty to receive this year\u2019s 2019 Governor General\u2019s Gold Medal, which is presented to the graduate who achieves the highest standing at the graduate degree level.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone worked so hard in my cohort and in the school, so I\u2019m very thankful, humbled, and honoured,\u201d he says. \u201cIf everyone is competing as best they can against themselves they should all feel proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

**To read more, go to the UFV Today\u2019s website<\/a>**<\/p>\n

**Ad sources from by Greg Laychak on June 5, 2019**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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