{"id":151636,"date":"2024-07-18T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=151636"},"modified":"2024-07-18T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:07:16","slug":"college-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/07\/18\/college-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"College-bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the past few weeks, Wright State University\u2019s Dayton Campus has been busy welcoming over 1,200 first-year students who have registered for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/orientation-and-success-programs\/new-student-orientation\">orientation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThese are students who are directly from high school or took a few years off,\u201d said Heath Marker, assistant director for new student orientation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marker said over 200 transfer students have also registered for orientation this summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students participating in orientation have the opportunity to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Meet with faculty and staff who can assist them during their time at Wright State.<\/li>\n<li>Meet current students to learn about their personal experiences and give first-hand knowledge of what it is like to be a student.<\/li>\n<li>Explore student support services and academic life.<\/li>\n<li>Gain a better understanding of their personal, academic and financial responsibilities while attending Wright State.<\/li>\n<li>Begin to foster their Wright State spirit and pride.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marker said the journey to college for new students is interesting and sometimes quirky because they are unfamiliar with Wright State&#8217;s campus and do not know many people. Orientation is designed to connect students with resources and tools to be successful and help them feel at home at Wright State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">New and transfer students starting at Wright State in the fall can still register for orientation. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/orientation-and-success-programs\/new-student-orientation\">wright.edu\/orientation<\/a> for orientation dates and registration information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orientation is designed to connect first-year and transfer students with resources and tools to be successful and help them feel at home at Wright State. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/07\/18\/college-bound\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":151639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2048,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/151636","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=151636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151748,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151636\/revisions\/151748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}