{"id":332,"date":"2019-10-04T10:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/enhance-student-life\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:20:05","slug":"student-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/giving\/why\/student-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhance student life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BU students grow inside the classroom\u2014and outside its walls.<\/h2>\n<h3>Your gift can ensure that students find a wealth of paths to explore, both for fun and for personal development.<\/h3>\n<p>In student-run clubs and organizations, community service projects, artistic and cultural pursuits, campus-based religious and spiritually oriented groups, and athletic teams, students learn to set strategy, build effective teams, and organize and run events. And in the process they have fun, develop their values, and build friendships that last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Our student organizations are largely funded through BU\u2019s annual operating budget. The creation of an endowed Undergraduate Student Experience Fund will ensure that, even in lean budget years, students can continue to dream big and pursue good ideas\u2014and that no program\u2019s positive impact will be curtailed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are many ways to enhance student life at BU:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support your favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/changingthegame\/\">athletic team<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Donate to the <a href=\"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/giving\/ways-to-give\/endow\/\">endowed<\/a> Student Experience Fund<\/li>\n<li>Support the Community Service Center Annual Fund<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/giving\/ways-to-give\/fund\/\">Designate your annual gift<\/a> to your favorite school or college\u2014it will be used as needed to support student organizations, community service projects, and other student life programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU students grow inside the classroom\u2014and outside its walls. Your gift can ensure that students find a wealth of paths to explore, both for fun and for personal development. In student-run clubs and organizations, community service projects, artistic and cultural pursuits, campus-based religious and spiritually oriented groups, and athletic teams, students learn to set strategy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":283,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/332\/revisions\/2091"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id-responsi.cms-devl.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}