{"id":449,"date":"2021-10-25T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/projects\/com-beyond\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:35:44","slug":"com-beyond","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/projects\/com-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"COM Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston University College of Communication (COM) seeks to expand the circle of learners it serves to include lifelong learners from their teen years through their adult lives. To do this, COM has created a stand-alone website called <a href=\"https:\/\/combeyond.bu.edu\">COM Beyond<\/a> as a platform to offer non-credit workshops, conferences and other opportunities beyond the pursuit of a traditional degree.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/COM-Beyond-150x150.png\" alt=\"BU Digital Learning &amp; Innovation\" width=\"350\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/COM-Beyond-636x314.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/COM-Beyond-500x247.png 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/COM-Beyond-166x82.png 166w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/files\/2021\/10\/COM-Beyond.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>COM Beyond is now home to professional education programs such as Data+Narrative; academic peer programs such as the <span>Biometric Workshops<\/span>; pre-college summer programs such as the <span>Summer Journalism Institute<\/span> and the <span>Academy of Media Production<\/span>; and special events such as the <span>International History of Public Relations Conference<\/span>. COM plans to expand its use of the platform with a mix of online and in-person educational offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston University College of Communication (COM) seeks to serve lifelong learners through skill-building workshops and professional education programs on the COM Beyond platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18026,"featured_media":1798,"template":"","meta":[],"projects_status":[123],"projects_dates":[231],"projects_topics":[136],"projects_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18026"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6737,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/449\/revisions\/6737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"projects_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects_status?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"projects_dates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects_dates?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"projects_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects_topics?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"projects_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects_tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}