{"id":73196,"date":"2025-09-10T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=73196"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:57:29","slug":"prof-mary-collins-headlines-webinar-foster-care-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/prof-mary-collins-headlines-webinar-foster-care-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Mary Collins Headlines Webinar in Foster Care and Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) Professor Mary Collins is the lead presenter at the National Research Collaborative for Foster Alumni and Higher Education (NRC-FAHE) webinar series, which highlights leaders in foster care and higher education with content designed for both researchers and practitioners.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Collins will share findings from <\/span>Post-Secondary Educational Aspirations Among Young Adults With Foster Care Experience: Highlighting the Interest in Vocational-Focused Education <\/span><\/i>which explores the post-secondary aspirations, plans, and goals of young adults with child welfare experience. Her research emphasizes vocational education as a vital yet underexamined pathway, with important implications for practice and policy in supporting youth formerly in foster care in higher education.<\/span><\/p>\n

Date & Time:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 24, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n

2:00PM \u2013 3:00 PM (EST)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Location:<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span>Online Event<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Learn More About Professor Collins’ Research<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) Professor Mary Collins is the lead presenter at the National Research Collaborative for Foster Alumni and Higher Education (NRC-FAHE) webinar series, which highlights leaders in foster care and higher education with content designed for both researchers and practitioners.\u00a0 Dr. Collins will share findings from Post-Secondary Educational Aspirations Among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25047,"featured_media":48642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7513,7427,7519,7434,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73196"}],"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\/25047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73196"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80831,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73196\/revisions\/80831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}