{"id":28217,"date":"2017-10-13T08:50:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28217"},"modified":"2017-10-13T09:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:01:56","slug":"parent-and-family-weekend-breaks-record-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28217","title":{"rendered":"Parent and Family Weekend draws record crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28220\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28220\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28220 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-750x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 750 people attended UCCS Parent and Family Weekend festivities Oct. 6-8.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Parent and Family Weekend welcomed more than 750 people to campus Oct. 6 \u2013 8, almost doubling last year\u2019s attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weekend is designed to promote parent and family engagement and student success,\u201d Ellen Burkart, director, Student Retention and First Year Experience Parent\/Family Programs, said.\u00a0\u201cWhen a parent is there for their student, they are more likely to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More families could visit thanks to a revamp of the program and additional space on campus. Gallogly Events Center, Berger Hall and Gallogly Recreation and Wellness Center accommodated families who came to campus from homes in Colorado as well as out of state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could really feel how busy campus was with the families in more than one space,\u201d said Burkhart.<\/p>\n<p>Students showed off campus and attended special events with their families\u00a0including sunrise yoga, lectures, fitness classes, and a magic show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a time of year where students may be getting homesick,\u201d Burkart said. \u201cThis weekend allowed them to spend quality time with their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the fifth year of Parent and Family Weekend festivities.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Photo by Joanna Bean\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Parent and Family Weekend welcomed more than 750 people to campus Oct. 6 \u2013 8, almost doubling last year\u2019s attendance. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28217\" title=\"Parent and Family Weekend draws record crowd\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Parent-Family-Weekend.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-7l7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28217"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28238,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28217\/revisions\/28238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}