{"id":2014,"date":"2017-05-25T09:48:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T08:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T09:53:26","slug":"kent-launches-new-alumni-association-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2017\/05\/25\/kent-launches-new-alumni-association-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent launches new alumni association in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University is delighted to announce the establishment of a new alumni association in France. The group was launched as part of the annual Paris reception in March and the committee was selected at its inaugural meeting in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/32628443594_95aafb20f8_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2024\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/32628443594_95aafb20f8_h-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/32628443594_95aafb20f8_h-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/32628443594_95aafb20f8_h-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/32628443594_95aafb20f8_h-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/32628443594_95aafb20f8_h-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/32628443594_95aafb20f8_h.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alumni groups bring together former students and staff of the University who are located in a specific region or have a shared special interest. They support Kent staff, students and activities in their area such as recruitment, partnership development and fundraising. Groups are run by a committee of alumni volunteers who direct activities and liaise with the University on behalf of their members. The University currently has alumni associations in France, Greece, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nigeria and the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33088355730_bb9ed3ac2a_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2025\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33088355730_bb9ed3ac2a_h-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33088355730_bb9ed3ac2a_h-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33088355730_bb9ed3ac2a_h-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33088355730_bb9ed3ac2a_h-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33088355730_bb9ed3ac2a_h-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33088355730_bb9ed3ac2a_h.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent France Alumni Association\u2019s committee members are:<\/p>\n<p>Juliette King (Politics, Rutherford 2005) \u2013 Chair<br \/>\nJane Verwijs (Law, Eliot 1981) \u2013 Secretary<br \/>\nSophie Bory (Politics, Keynes 2005) \u2013 Events Officer<br \/>\nMathilde Guenegan (Journalism, Medway 2013) \u2013 Communications Officer<br \/>\nTh\u00e9o Thieffry (Politics, Rutherford 2007) \u2013 External Outreach Officer<br \/>\nVal\u00e9rie Gratzer (Politics, Rutherford 1981) \u2013 General Officer<br \/>\nKim Randazzo (SECL, Eliot 1987) \u2013 General Officer<br \/>\nSally Miller (History, Rutherford 1965) \u2013 General Officer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2023\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1032-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1032-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1032-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/IMG_1032.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about our alumni groups on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/alumni\/groups\/index.html\">alumni website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33431074626_f633438eb2_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2022\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33431074626_f633438eb2_h-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33431074626_f633438eb2_h-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33431074626_f633438eb2_h-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2017\/05\/33431074626_f633438eb2_h.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University is delighted to announce the establishment of a new alumni association in France. The group was launched as part of the annual Paris &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2017\/05\/25\/kent-launches-new-alumni-association-in-france\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34788,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}