{"id":1977,"date":"2016-12-12T14:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2016-12-12T14:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:03:20","slug":"notes-from-department-head-cal-ribbens-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2016\/12\/12\/notes-from-department-head-cal-ribbens-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Department Head Cal Ribbens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This semester we embarked on a new initiative to reconnect with our alumni.\u00a0 It has been great fun to meet Virginia Tech CS alumni at events in San Diego, Austin, and Arlington over the last few months.\u00a0 For those of you in the Bay Area or the Seattle area, we expect to announce opportunities to reconnect in those regions soon, as well.\u00a0 We see many potential benefits to spending time on these efforts. For our alumni, we want to provide a way to stay connected to an important chapter in your life.\u00a0 When you crossed that stage with a diploma, you didn\u2019t cease being a CS Hokie!\u00a0 Seeing how the university and the department continue to grow and impact the world is one way to add to the significance of that chapter in your own life. These events are also a fun way to meet fellow CS alums, to share stories of how a VT education has opened doors to an incredibly wide array of fulfilling careers. \u00a0For us in the department, these interactions help us continue to improve and grow our program.\u00a0 Alumni are an important stakeholder group.\u00a0 Frequent interactions with you all closes a critical feedback loop that enables continuous improvement.\u00a0 So thanks to all of you who we\u2019ve seen at recent alumni events, and be on the look out for future opportunities to reconnect!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1283\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/12\/Dr.-Ribbens.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Ribbens\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester we embarked on a new initiative to reconnect with our alumni.\u00a0 It has been great fun to meet Virginia Tech CS alumni at events in San Diego, Austin, and Arlington over the last few months.\u00a0 For those of you in the Bay Area or the Seattle area, we expect to announce opportunities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}