{"id":87974,"date":"2024-08-12T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?page_id=87974"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:14:20","slug":"community-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/faculty-staff-test\/professional-development-community\/community-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MET Community Gatherings are spaces for faculty and staff to get to know colleagues. We encourage you to participate in these college-wide gatherings, including Tea Times, Pizza Thursdays, and the MET Holiday Party.<\/p>\n<p>A full <a href=\"https:\/\/bushare.sharepoint.com\/sites\/MET-Central\/Lists\/Events\/calendar.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MET Events calendar<\/a> can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/bushare.sharepoint.com\/sites\/MET-Central\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MET Central SharePoint<\/a>. To set an alert for a calendar event, click on the event, and then select &#8220;Alert Me&#8221; under &#8220;Actions&#8221; to receive notifications and updates.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any suggestions, please contact Michaela Norton (mlnorton@bu.edu).<\/p>\n<h2>MET Town Hall<\/h2>\n<p>The MET Town Hall is held every semester for all full-time faculty and staff. The meeting serves to share information and discuss the current state of the college, major academic and administrative initiatives and challenges, and build community across departments.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/bushare.sharepoint.com\/sites\/MET-Central\/MET%20Shared%20Documents\/Forms\/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FMET%2DCentral%2FMET%20Shared%20Documents%2FDEANS%20SHARED%2FMET%20Town%20Hall&amp;viewid=90ddf2ae%2De6f6%2D434d%2D93ae%2Da5553f267c2c\">MET Town Hall folder<\/a> for current and previous meeting materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MET Community Gatherings are spaces for faculty and staff to get to know colleagues. We encourage you to participate in these college-wide gatherings, including Tea Times, Pizza Thursdays, and the MET Holiday Party. A full MET Events calendar can be found on the MET Central SharePoint. To set an alert for a calendar event, click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19676,"featured_media":89125,"parent":87933,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87974"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97472,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87974\/revisions\/97472"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}