{"id":29815,"date":"2017-03-08T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/?p=29815"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:22:41","slug":"bussw-hosts-first-macro-mixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/bussw-hosts-first-macro-mixer\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSSW Hosts First Macro Mixer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ssw\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_1937.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ssw\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_1937-636x636.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1937\" width=\"356\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-29825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_1937-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_1937-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_1937-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_1937-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_1937-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_1937.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, February 8, the BU School of Social Work\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Admissions Office hosted its first Macro Matters Mixer, an effort to raise awareness about the macro side of social work and to offer an opportunity for networking amongst various audiences. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Faculty, staff, alumni and current students gathered to mix and mingle with 20 perspective macro students in attendance. The evening provided an opportunity for macro alumni and faculty to share their stories and experiences and for current and perspective students to gain valuable insight and perspective on a career in macro social work.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nPictured: (Above) Professor Geoff Wilkinson (&#8217;85) with Ashley Slay (&#8217;16); (Below) Associate Dean Ken Schulman with Mitchell Thomas (&#8217;14, SPH&#8217;15) and Dan Do (&#8217;13, SPH&#8217;14)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 8, the BU School of Social Work\u00a0Admissions Office hosted its first Macro Matters Mixer, an effort to raise awareness about the macro side of social work and to offer an opportunity for networking amongst various audiences. Faculty, staff, alumni and current students gathered to mix and mingle with 20 perspective macro students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10799,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7428,7435,7427,7451,7511,4057,7429],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29815"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29849,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions\/29849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}