{"id":23019,"date":"2020-10-15T12:57:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T16:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=23019"},"modified":"2020-10-15T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T16:57:46","slug":"alumni-news-fall-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/alumni-news-fall-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zoom-Mockup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23021\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zoom-Mockup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Zoom-Mockup.png 800w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Zoom-Mockup-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Zoom-Mockup-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Zoom-Mockup-705x471.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px\"><strong>Virtual Engagement<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nNeed a new Zoom background? The Alumni Association is offering downloadable campus photos on their virtual engagement page to keep your Monday meetings interesting and keep you more connected to Clemson. And the virtual opportunities don\u2019t stop there.<br \/>\nExplore painting classes, read alouds of children\u2019s books, dance breaks with DJ Sha, question-and-answer sessions with alumni and Clemson experts on topics ranging from NASCAR to the economic impacts of the pandemic, and more. The Alumni Association has also listed online resources available to alumni, including an online job search and online mentorship opportunities.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 19px\"><strong>Affinity Groups Update<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOn the Alumni Association\u2019s contact update form, alumni can now self-identify with various affinity groups they\u2019d like to be part of, including the Hispanic &amp; Latinx Alumni Council, the Women\u2019s Alumni Council, the LGBTQ+ Alumni Council and the Black Alumni Council. Visit <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.clemson.edu\/contactupdate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alumni.clemson.edu\/contactupdate<\/a><\/span> to access the form.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tiger-Bound-Sign.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23023\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Tiger-Bound-Sign.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Tiger-Bound-Sign.png 400w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Tiger-Bound-Sign-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px\"><strong>Made to Order<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThis spring, bright orange signs emblazoned with \u201cTigertown Bound Class of \u201924\u201d could be seen in front yards all over the state and country. It\u2019s a proud moment for future students and their families, showing their neighbors and friends where they\u2019re going to college.<br \/>\nNormally, the Alumni Association provides these signs for student send-off parties and other events. COVID-19 made that impossible this year, so the Alumni Association created an online order form at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signs.com\/tigertown-bound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">signs.com\/tigertown-bound<\/span><\/a>, where students can order their own signs and enjoy the tradition.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Engagement Need a new Zoom background? The Alumni Association is offering downloadable campus photos on their virtual engagement page to keep your Monday meetings interesting and keep you more connected to Clemson. And the virtual opportunities don\u2019t stop there. Explore painting classes, read alouds of children\u2019s books, dance breaks with DJ Sha, question-and-answer sessions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23021,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,8],"tags":[159,1184,1191,1800],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","category-my-clemson","tag-alumni","tag-fall-2020-alumni-news","tag-fall-2020-lifelong-tigers","tag-lifelong-tigers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Zoom-Mockup.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23019"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}