{"id":110949,"date":"2021-08-24T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=110949"},"modified":"2021-08-24T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:17:30","slug":"wright-state-students-surge-back-to-campus-as-in-person-classes-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/08\/24\/wright-state-students-surge-back-to-campus-as-in-person-classes-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State students surge back to campus as in-person classes resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After more than a year of taking courses largely online, students streamed back to Wright State University for in-person classes on the first day of Fall Semester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody seems very happy to be here,\u201d said Chris Taylor, dean of students. \u201cThe place is pretty energetic. We had a ton of students turn out for indoor and outdoor activities over the weekend. I think everybody enjoyed them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Smith, a senior majoring in organizational leadership, was handing out campus maps and helping new students find their way to class. \u201cThe campus atmosphere is here again,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fall enrollments across the Dayton and Lake campuses have been tracking as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor said the return to in-person classes likely helped with enrollments. \u201cAnd Admissions has done a really phenomenal job,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s a lot of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Toledo, a sophomore marketing major, was studying at the ReyRey Caf\u00e9 in Rike Hall, home to the Raj Soin College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting because we\u2019re finally being back in person, back to our classes,\u201d said Toledo, adding that she was also looking forward to all of the campus activities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110961\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110961\" class=\"size-large wp-image-110961\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2021\/08\/Mural-photo-of-students-54808_162-508x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"262\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fall enrollments across the Dayton and Lake campuses have been tracking as expected.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall enrollments across the Dayton and Lake campuses have been tracking as expected. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/08\/24\/wright-state-students-surge-back-to-campus-as-in-person-classes-resume\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":110961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,2048,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-enrollment-management","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110949"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110977,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110949\/revisions\/110977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}