{"id":8006,"date":"2021-09-10T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2021-09-10T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:22:11","slug":"build-cultural-understanding-and-friendships-through-conversation-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2021\/09\/10\/build-cultural-understanding-and-friendships-through-conversation-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Build cultural understanding and friendships through Conversation Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conversation Partners, a student organization at Detroit Mercy, is looking for students who want to build cultural understanding and friendships through conversations between domestic and international students.<\/p>\n<p>There are many benefits to volunteering as a conversation partner, from making new friends to sharing culture in a relaxing and fun way. Students can also earn service credits by participating in this program.<\/p>\n<p>For questions, please email interim Conversation Partners Student President Amir Radmanesh at <a href=\"mailto:radmanam@udmercy.edu\">radmanam@udmercy.edu<\/a>, or Conversation Partners Faculty Advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/people\/university\/admin\/iso\/alcp\/katie-franklin\">Katie Franklin<\/a> at <a href=\"mailto:franklca1@udmercy.edu\">franklca1@udmercy.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.udmercy.edu\/index.php\/611662?lang=en\">Interested in participating in this program? Please complete Conversation Partners\u2019 survey by Friday, Sept. 17<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversation Partners, a student organization at Detroit Mercy, is looking for students who want to build cultural understanding and friendships through conversations between domestic and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4404],"tags":[4834,78,2380,77,2902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-258","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8007,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}