{"id":80,"date":"2023-10-23T18:15:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/?p=80"},"modified":"2023-11-20T19:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:50:49","slug":"welcome-from-jenny-gibson-director-of-family-engagement-and-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/2023\/10\/23\/welcome-from-jenny-gibson-director-of-family-engagement-and-philanthropy\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome from Jenny Gibson, Director of Family Engagement and Philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear families,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leaves have finished falling across campus, and the cooler temps have students breaking out their winter coats. Where did the weeks go? In this season of gratitude, I am thankful to be part of this wonderful University, its students, and their families.  I hope that when you connect with your student, they have great things to share with you about their Alfred experience. I&#8217;ve included some questions that will encourage them to share their thoughts in the article &#8220;Conversation Starters.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, we were ecstatic with the response to Family Weekend this year. Over 500 of you registered and participated with us in Alfred at the beginning of October! I hope that you made some memories and had some quality time with your student. We got some fantastic photos and have shared them on our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30429792@N03\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30429792@N03\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alfred University Flickr page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have planned three webinars for next semester for all Family Association members (that&#8217;s you!), which you can read about later in this newsletter. I hope you can attend them or watch later. (They will be posted on our website.) I believe you will find them helpful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, I&#8217;m open to your feedback on the programming we put together for you. I&#8217;m grateful to have you and your students as part of the Alfred family and look forward to connecting again soon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kindly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenny Gibson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/10\/53248130117_a3f3f49f6c_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear families, The leaves have finished falling across campus, and the cooler temps have students breaking out their winter coats. Where did the weeks go? In this season of gratitude, I am thankful to be part of this wonderful University, its students, and their families. I hope that when you connect with your student, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}