{"id":1092,"date":"2016-09-15T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2023-12-18T00:30:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T05:30:01","slug":"a-busy-summer-on-the-residence-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=1092","title":{"rendered":"A Busy Summer on the Residence Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most students were away for the summer, the Residence Campus continued to hum, welcoming guests for conferences, summer camps, and other events.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, the Conferences &amp; Events team put one of the College&#8217;s most valuable resources to very good use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We welcomed more than <b>1,400 guests<\/b> over a six-week period<\/li>\n<li>The residence halls were occupied for a total of more than <b>6,500 bed nights<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Over <b>15,000 meals<\/b> were served in Bartol Hall<\/li>\n<li>Summer revenues saw an <b>18% increase<\/b> over 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Throughout the year, the Conferences &amp; Events staff works to connect Simmons to the city of Boston and beyond\u2014continuing to raise the profile of our campus in the community while identifying opportunities for revenue growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most students were away for the summer, the Residence Campus continued to hum, welcoming guests for conferences, summer camps, and other events. This summer, the Conferences &amp; Events team put one of the College&#8217;s most valuable resources to very good use: We welcomed more than 1,400 guests over a six-week period The residence halls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[341,364,365],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-341","tag-201608summer","tag-project-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}