{"id":2098,"date":"2020-07-01T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:27:30","slug":"june-notes-from-the-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/2020\/07\/01\/june-notes-from-the-director\/","title":{"rendered":"June Notes from the Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Dr. Daniella Widdows<br>Director of Global Education and Study Abroad<br>June 29, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a year this has been! &nbsp;While it was very sad that we had to recall students who were abroad this spring and cancelled summer programs, I remain impressed with how our Tigers demonstrated such resilience and good spirit after an abrupt and disappointing change.&nbsp; The final posts of our spring bloggers will be online soon and speak to how transformative studying abroad can be, even in unanticipated ways, and I encourage you to read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another great read is from this spring&#8217;s <em>Record<\/em> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/hampden-sydney_college\/docs\/2020springrecordvol952\/20?ff=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Student Spotlight (opens in a new tab)\">Student Spotlight<\/a> section.  <strong>Rakeem Walker &#8217;20<\/strong> was interviewed about his time at H-SC and he has much to say about his time studying abroad in France in 2018.  Definitely check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We in the Global Ed office are looking forward to welcoming\nstudents to campus in August. I have greatly enjoyed getting to meet some of\nour new freshmen and their parents, as a group or individually, at Summer\nOrientation these past few days.&nbsp; I\nencourage all of you to consider how a Global Ed program can enhance your\nHampden-Sydney education.&nbsp; Do be in touch\nthis summer if you have any questions or want to get a head start on exploring\nyour options.&nbsp; Otherwise, I look forward\nto having you stop by my office in Blake A in the fall! &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A shout out to study abroad program alumni: would you like\nto encourage other Tigers to go abroad? If so, please be in touch!&nbsp; I am updating our office materials this\nsummer and would love to include you in a newly developed resource section of\nreturner interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Daniella WiddowsDirector of Global Education and Study AbroadJune 29, 2020 What a year this has been! &nbsp;While it was very sad that we had to recall students who were abroad this spring and cancelled summer programs, I remain impressed with how our Tigers demonstrated such resilience and good spirit after an abrupt and disappointing change.&nbsp; The final posts of our spring bloggers will be online soon and speak to how transformative studying abroad can be, even in unanticipated ways, and I encourage you to read them. Another great read is from this spring&#8217;s Record and its Student Spotlight section. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-from-the-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}