{"id":96,"date":"2017-12-01T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T19:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2018-09-07T00:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T04:41:19","slug":"our-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/about\/our-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"our mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Th<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-467 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/files\/2018\/09\/unity-300x227.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/files\/2018\/09\/unity-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/files\/2018\/09\/unity.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>e mission of the Black Students&#8217; Union (BSU) is to be an uplifting and productive environment for the Black-identifying community of Vassar College. BSU promotes proactive leadership, scholarship, community outreach and student empowerment. BSU takes pride in working to develop a lasting appreciation of social, moral, intellectual, and most of all, cultural values that will elevate the Black student in their pursuit of academia. We are dedicated to eradicating ignorance toward a plurality of black identities, and to promote positive change through education, motivation, and advocacy for Black students at Vassar. &nbsp;BSU membership is open to any Vassar student who is strongly committed to the mission of the organization.<\/p>\n<h2>Our Constitution<\/h2>\n<p>Amended every year by BSU&#8217;s Executive Board, here is a look at&nbsp; 2018\/ 2018&#8217;s Black Students&#8217; Union&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1HtqA6KFd5lHWf4wIpeXb1TuDJ8R7WrBbC0he7CpCBP0\/edit?usp=sharing\">Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of the Black Students&#8217; Union (BSU) is to be an uplifting and productive environment for the Black-identifying community of Vassar College. BSU promotes proactive leadership, scholarship, community outreach &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/about\/our-mission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;our mission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5078,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/472"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/bsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}