{"id":34880,"date":"2015-09-04T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=34880"},"modified":"2015-09-04T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T19:53:02","slug":"student-union-picking-up-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/09\/student-union-picking-up-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Student union picking up international students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34878\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spencerdawson.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34878\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34878\" title=\"spencerdawson\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/spencerdawson-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Spencer Dawson, BUSU's Vice-President of Finance and Administration.\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spencer Dawson, BUSU&#39;s Vice-President of Finance and Administration.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the first time, international students arriving in Toronto to attend programs at Brock University will have a ride from the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Brock University Student&#8217;s Union has started a shuttle that ferries students to the school when they arrive here from all over the world, said BUSU Vice-President of Finance and Administration Spencer Dawson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before, they had to find their own way to the school from the airport,&#8221; he said, noting he was elected on a platform that included the international student shuttle idea. &#8220;This was a gap in service to international students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said all international students have been notified of the shuttle, which is being offered for $55. The shuttles run every evening from 7-9 p.m. until Sept. 7. The majority of international flights arrive in time for students to use the shuttles, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the ride, arriving international students are also welcomed with a swag bag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re giving a good first impression for the University,&#8221; Dawson said.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of international students are coming here from China. In total, students are coming from 95 countries around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Inclusion is the biggest part,&#8221; Dawson said. &#8220;I want them to feel included in our campus and not feel like the &#8216;other.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, international students arriving in Toronto to attend programs at Brock University will have a ride from the airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":34878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[133,1919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34883,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34880\/revisions\/34883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}