{"id":141222,"date":"2023-09-07T13:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=141222"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:04:03","slug":"all-are-welcome-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/09\/07\/all-are-welcome-here\/","title":{"rendered":"All are welcome here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There were a lot of smiles and cheers from Wright State University students as the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/inclusive-excellence\/culture-and-identity-centers\">Cultural and Identity Center<\/a> space was officially opened in the Student Union on August 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen we think about diversity and inclusion, we don\u2019t think about it tucked away,\u201d said Wright State President Sue Edwards, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The center is located in 023 Student Union, a highly visible location across from WWSU 106.9 FM, the student-run radio station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMore people can come in and start to get comfortable with something they necessarily didn\u2019t know how to identify with before,\u201d said Kacey O\u2019Harra, a Wright State alumna who attended the opening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The space houses six identity centers: the Asian and Native American Center, Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center, Latino Center, LGBTQA Center, Women\u2019s Center and the newly formed Disability and Neurodivergence Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rebekah Wyse, a Wright State alumna and former president of the Abilities Student Organization, was instrumental in the idea to create the Disability and Neurodivergence Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m just proud that Wright State was able to provide this space for us,\u201d Wyse said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over 1,000 students with a disability or neurodivergence attend Wright State. Wright State is one of only two universities in Ohio with a cultural and identity center space for students with disabilities and one of only 18 colleges in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of smiles and cheers from Wright State University students as the new Cultural and Identity Center space was officially opened in the Student Union. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/09\/07\/all-are-welcome-here\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":141226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141222","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141230,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141222\/revisions\/141230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}