{"id":1239,"date":"2019-02-06T09:15:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T09:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2019-02-05T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:49:02","slug":"mosaic-weekend-connects-students-and-alumni-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2019\/02\/06\/mosaic-weekend-connects-students-and-alumni-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic Weekend Connects Students and Alumni of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Samira Gure \u201920 (above, left) was one of many students who interacted with alumni like Robert Fullilove \u201966 (right) during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colgate.edu\/alumni\/mosaic\">Mosaic<\/a> Weekend beginning Oct. 19. The annual event was created \u201cfor students of color to meet and talk with alumni of color who share wisdom and stories about their experiences while being a student at Colgate,\u201d said Veronica McFall \u201989, assistant director of alumni relations for affinity and identity programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">These conversations continued throughout the weekend as students and alumni discussed topics ranging from the best ways to leverage the Colgate network to identities in the workplace to the importance of remaining focused on goals throughout their undergraduate years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Keynote speaker Mich\u00e8le Alexandre \u201996, the University\u2019s first black valedictorian, highlighted how the struggles of people of color throughout the years paved the way for the diversity at Colgate today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cColgate has weathered many storms, many cultural shifts in 200 years,\u201d Alexandre said. \u201cIt has redefined itself with the help of alumni of color in the room, constantly engaging with it and its mission. So will you, students. We will help you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students and alumni of color met and discussed Colgate&#8217;s history and future at Colgate weekends. Alumni shared their stories and advice for current students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,291],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni-updates","tag-diversity","tag-mosaic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-jZ","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/ALUMNI-MOSAIC.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}