{"id":25,"date":"2019-09-02T22:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T02:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2019-09-12T19:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:08:03","slug":"ece-community-building","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/ece-community-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Building and Well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A community helps strengthen connections between members, and in turn, improve the quality of life and provide a constant source of motivation and support for students, especially in competitive Ph.D. programs such as in ECE. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life as a Ph.D. student can be extremely stressful and peer support can help students cope with the stress and be more productive in their research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, a strong community of peers will eventually grow into a wide network of alumni that will improve the reputation and pave the way for future endowments to the college. Building this community will, therefore, improve <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the graduate student experience as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under community building, we plan to host events that will improve life at ECE. Some of the events planned for the year 2019\/2020 include a peer mentoring program, discussions on sexual harassment and mental health awareness, an alumni networking night, lighting research talks, and stress-break socials. In addition, we will have a newsletter that would provide advice and guidelines for everything from settling in as a first-year student to graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A community helps strengthen connections between members, and in turn, improve the quality of life and provide a constant source of motivation and support for students, especially in competitive Ph.D. programs such as in ECE. Life as a Ph.D. student can be extremely stressful and peer support can help students cope with the stress and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12344,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}