{"id":7256,"date":"2013-11-04T19:41:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T00:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2017-12-11T20:56:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:56:58","slug":"students-of-inspiration-not-limitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=7256","title":{"rendered":"Students of Inspiration, not Limitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7260\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7260\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7260\" title=\"Former SU Dean and program namesake Barry Wells\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wellsl-10-bwells.jpg\" alt=\"Former SU Dean and program namesake Barry Wells\" width=\"508\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wellsl-10-bwells.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wellsl-10-bwells-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former SU Dean and program namesake Barry Wells<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because I have two mentors who began educational transition programs that got me interested in finding out more about the WellsLink Leadership program at Syracuse University.\u00a0 It also could be the fact that I too was a member of a similar program. Either way, I was\u00a0happy to hear that the organization\u00a0celebrate its celebrating its 10th year anniversary on campus.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s\u00a0speaker was poet Nikki Giovanni. Giovanni was introduced by former-SU staffer\u00a0Dr. Paul Buckley. There was also an appearance by former SU Dean Barry Wells, who started the program. To get an appreciation of what the WellsLink has done, and continues to achieve, listen to the sound clip from Paul Buckley below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/118578695&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7259\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7259\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7259\" title=\"Featured speaker for the event: Poet and educator Nikki Giovanni\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wellsl-10-ng2.jpg\" alt=\"Featured speaker for the event: Poet and educator Nikki Giovanni\" width=\"508\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wellsl-10-ng2.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wellsl-10-ng2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Featured speaker for the event poet and educator Nikki Giovanni read a few of her pieces during the Friday afternoon ceremony.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_7261\" style=\"width: 308px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7261\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7261\" title=\"Paul Buckley, dean for undergraduate students at Dartmouth College\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wellsl-10-buckley.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Buckley, dean for undergraduate students at Dartmouth College\" width=\"298\" height=\"508\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul Buckley, who\u00a0currently serves as a dean for undergraduate students at Dartmouth College, worked closely with the WellsLink program when he was at Syracuse University.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because I have two mentors who began educational transition programs that got me interested in finding out more about the WellsLink Leadership program at Syracuse University.\u00a0 It also could be the fact that I too was a member of a similar program. Either way, I was\u00a0happy to hear that the organization\u00a0celebrate its celebrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[2524,2952,3346,3345,26,1152,2486,3341,64,3343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24244,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions\/24244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}