{"id":90004,"date":"2024-01-04T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=90004"},"modified":"2024-01-09T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T19:57:32","slug":"events-across-campus-to-give-students-warm-january-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/01\/events-across-campus-to-give-students-warm-january-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Events across campus to give students warm January welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New students and returning Badgers will be welcomed to campus with an array of events set to usher in the Winter Term.<\/p>\n<p>International students beginning their time at Brock are invited to the <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/249064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New International Student Orientation Welcome<\/a> on Sunday, Jan. 7. The full day of activities is designed to connect students with their peers and Brock staff, and to help them become familiar with their new surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>From Monday, Jan. 8 to Friday, Jan. 12, a week of orientation activities will be organized by the University\u2019s Graduate Students\u2019 Association (GSA) and will feature a chance to meet therapy dogs, a <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/250914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">virtual health plan information session<\/a> and an event to meet the GSA executive team. There will also be a <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/250564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winter Welcome Warm-Up<\/a> for new incoming graduate students, where free hot chocolate will be shared alongside information about life as a graduate student at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>GSA President Rakha Zabin hopes the activities provide a warm welcome during a chilly time of year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelebrating the start of the Winter Term can be a great way to bring positive energy to the beginning of a new academic session,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The following week, from Monday, Jan. 15 to Friday, Jan. 19, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockbusu.ca\/ents\/event\/183\/\">Brock University Students\u2019 Union (BUSU)<\/a>, Student Life and Success and partners from across campus will begin Frost Week activities for all Brock students.<\/p>\n<p>Events will kick off with <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/237611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ice skating at Canada Games Park<\/a>, where students can take to the ice as well as enjoy free snacks and hot chocolate. The week will also feature a <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/249915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clubs fair<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/252073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BIPOC Community Social<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/236409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free hot breakfast<\/a>, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/250308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">student engagement fair<\/a> offering students a series of activities and opportunities to connect with resources across campus.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Bradley, Brock\u2019s Manager, Student Leadership and Engagement, said there will something for everyone as they begin the new term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrost Week not only welcomes new students to Brock&#8217;s campus for the first time. It also provides exciting events and experiences for all students to reconnect to one another and our campus community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A full list of Frost Week events can be found on the Frost Week <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/frostweek\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExperienceBU page<\/a>, while GSA events can be found on the association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brockgsa.ca\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What\u2019s Happening Page<\/a> and Brock International events can be found on the Brock International <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/organization\/international\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ExperienceBU page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New students and returning Badgers will be welcomed to campus with an array of events set to usher in the Winter Term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":90005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,3319,1],"tags":[159,133,1523,2479,514,10488,497,5745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90004"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90004"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90092,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90004\/revisions\/90092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}