{"id":13778,"date":"2020-04-28T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T04:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=13778"},"modified":"2020-06-10T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T04:50:58","slug":"the-vc-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2020\/04\/28\/the-vc-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The VC and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feedback from graduates disappointed at missing their formal graduation ceremony has inspired a creative way of marking the occasion \u2013 virtual photos with the VC.<\/p>\n<p>As an antidote to challenges of this semester, Flinders is delivering a special graduation memory to graduates \u2013 they\u2019re being encouraged to submit their favourite or fun photos of themselves via Facebook, and the University\u2019s photoshop whiz-kids will do their magic and add in the Vice-Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to graduates Callista Thillou, Executive Director, Alumni &amp; Advancement said \u201cWe really want to give the VC a workout, so we want your most creative, quirky (but family-friendly) photos. We\u2019ll Photoshop as many as we can, in as many fun ways as we can imagine, then release them for you to share with the world!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The technical wizardry will take place this Thursday 30 April from 12-2.30pm, when Professor Stirling will be locked in a room with a photographer, a photoshop team and one goal\u2026 to put him in as many photos as possible in two and a half hours!<\/p>\n<p>The virtual snaps are the brainchild of OCME staff member Terry Webb, who thought it would be a great way to congratulate graduates until such time as the University can celebrate in a formal manner when COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be sharing some of the images through <em>Flinders in Touch<\/em>, and keep an eye on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FlindersUniversity\/\">University\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feedback from graduates disappointed at missing their formal graduation ceremony has inspired a creative way of marking the occasion \u2013 virtual photos with the VC. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":13779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8996],"class_list":["post-13778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-vc-professor-colin-stirling"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}