{"id":351,"date":"2013-08-29T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=351"},"modified":"2013-08-29T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:42:42","slug":"convocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/08\/29\/convocations\/","title":{"rendered":"Convocations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwp.edu\/events\/convocation\/fall13\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 UW-Parkside convocation<\/a>. While it was nice to see folks from many different sectors of the university gather to celebrate successes and learn about new initiatives, I&#8217;m a bit disappointed that we don&#8217;t have the type of convocation I&#8217;m used to attending, a gathering for new students where they hear a few short speeches, learn some of the traditions of the university, and are motivated to start the year strongly. Last week I spoke with the Dean of Students to suggest that we should co-chair a committee to explore possibilities for establishing a <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Its-Special-Because-No-Other\/141153\/\" target=\"_blank\">campus signature event<\/a>; I&#8217;ll have to see if she also wants to add a new student convocation to the planning agenda. If so, we&#8217;ll definitely need to look into including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=98nNpzE6gIs\" target=\"_blank\">dynamic sophomore speaker like the one this year at Georgia Tech<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended the 2013 UW-Parkside convocation. While it was nice to see folks from many different sectors of the university gather to celebrate successes and learn about new initiatives, I&#8217;m a bit disappointed that we don&#8217;t have the type of convocation I&#8217;m used to attending, a gathering for new students where they hear a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22222,22230],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-academic-administration","tag-undergraduate-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}