{"id":9,"date":"2010-09-20T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T15:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/about-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:52:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Parent and Family Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/parentsprogram\/files\/Welcome-BU-families-650x244.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/files\/Welcome-BU-families-650x244.png 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/files\/Welcome-BU-families-1024x384.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/files\/Welcome-BU-families-768x288.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/files\/Welcome-BU-families-1536x576.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/files\/Welcome-BU-families-2048x768.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parent &amp; Family Programs at Boston University is dedicated to engaging and informing parents and family members throughout their students\u2019 BU experiences. The goal of Parent &amp; Family Programs, led by the Director, Christy Loring, is to guide BU parents and guardians so that they can be well-informed, supportive mentors to their students. We also strive to help ease the transition that family members adjust to when their students take the lead, leaving guardians to assume a more advisory role. We believe that well-informed and well-adjusted guardians are better able to guide their student(s) to having the best possible BU experience.<\/p>\n<p>Your first interaction with Parent &amp; Family Programs will likely be during our Know Before You Go sessions in the spring or winter. Family members are encouraged to participate in these sessions to learn first-hand about academics, life on campus, belonging at BU, and the myriad of support systems at the University.<\/p>\n<p>Parent &amp; Family Programs also oversees Family &amp; Friends Weekend and we plan events during the move-in periods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Parent &amp; Family Programs at Boston University is dedicated to engaging and informing parents and family members throughout their students\u2019 BU experiences. The goal of Parent &amp; Family Programs, led by the Director, Christy Loring, is to guide BU parents and guardians so that they can be well-informed, supportive mentors to their students. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1416,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/parentsprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}