{"id":152966,"date":"2024-08-21T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=152966"},"modified":"2024-08-21T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:06:31","slug":"dayton-daily-news-large-increase-in-students-moving-into-wright-state-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/08\/21\/dayton-daily-news-large-increase-in-students-moving-into-wright-state-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Large increase in students moving into Wright State this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/08\/21\/dayton-daily-news-large-increase-in-students-moving-into-wright-state-this-week\/move-in-70476_134\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-152974\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-152974\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2024\/08\/move-in-70476_134-508x326.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>Wright State University students, with their parents\u2019 help, began moving into residence halls today for the new school year.<\/p>\n<p>The university is expected to have 2,304 students move into residence halls and apartments during move-in this week.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State President Sue Edwards said this incoming class is one of the largest ones in a long time for the university.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, about 2,000 students were living on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most residential students we\u2019ve had living on campus in over 10 years,\u201d Jennifer Attenweiler, director of Wright State\u2019s Residence Life, said.<\/p>\n<p>She credits the increase in housing to a record-high retention rate among the students who chose to continue to live on campus. About 67% of students who lived on campus last year chose to do so again this year.<\/p>\n<p>Carly Hosmon, a fourth-year student, said she continued to choose to live on-campus because it is easier than driving in each day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a better choice for me overall,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Woods, an incoming first-year, said he could have commuted if he wanted to but chose to live on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to experience life living away from home and being independent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the complete article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/large-increase-in-students-moving-into-wright-state-this-week\/645ZIAGCQVBYNMUTVXDBTTG7LE\/\">daytondailynews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University students, with their parents\u2019 help, began moving into residence halls today for the new school year. The university is expected to have 2,304 students move into residence halls and apartments during move-in this week. Wright State President &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2024\/08\/21\/dayton-daily-news-large-increase-in-students-moving-into-wright-state-this-week\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":152974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152966","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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152979,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152966\/revisions\/152979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}