{"id":89227,"date":"2023-11-13T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=89227"},"modified":"2023-11-13T17:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:03:38","slug":"first-generation-students-invited-to-share-their-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/11\/first-generation-students-invited-to-share-their-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"First-generation students invited to share their experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock students who are the first in their family to pursue a post-secondary degree are invited to take part in an upcoming focus group.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the University\u2019s Student Life and Success team, the sessions aim to identify new and better ways to support first-generation students inside and outside of the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place in person, the sessions will aim to listen to student participants to learn about the pressures, opportunities and joys they experience.<\/p>\n<p>The three available session times are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/247983\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday, Nov. 20<\/a>, from 10 to 11 a.m. in PLZ 408<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/247984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday, Nov. 21<\/a>, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in ST 109<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/247985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thursday, Nov. 23<\/a>, from 5 to 6 p.m. in TH 255<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each session can host up to 20 students and will offer complimentary light refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who is interested is asked to RSVP to the date they wish to attend on Student Life and Success\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/studentlife\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExperienceBU page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock students who are the first in their family to pursue a post-secondary degree are invited to take part in an upcoming focus group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,12374,7484],"tags":[12230,13075,9075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89227"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89249,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89227\/revisions\/89249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}