{"id":20093,"date":"2013-01-04T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=20093"},"modified":"2013-03-21T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:26:15","slug":"wright-state-changing-lives-for-over-45-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/01\/04\/wright-state-changing-lives-for-over-45-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State &#8216;changing lives&#8217; for over 45 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Melissa Kelbley never thought she would graduate from college. But she had never heard of Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Kelbley became one of the nearly 98,000 people to earn a degree from Wright State in the university\u2019s 45 years. Wright State uniquely allowed Kelbley, now 23, to attend college with its services for people with physical disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a huge accomplishment that I didn\u2019t think I would ever be able to do,\u201d said the Fostoria, Ohio native, who uses a wheelchair. \u201cI feel like I can be a role model now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright State celebrated 45 years of \u201cchanging lives\u201d in 2012. The university was launched with a grassroots campaign that raised $3 million. When the first students began classes in Allyn Hall on Sept. 8, 1964, the institution was the Dayton Campus of Miami and the Ohio State University. It wasn\u2019t until three years later that Wright State was designated Ohio\u2019s 12th public university with 5,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/wright-state-marks-45-years\/nTjWd\/\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Melissa Kelbley never thought she would graduate from college. But she had never heard of Wright State University. In June, Kelbley became one of the nearly 98,000 people to earn a degree from Wright State in the university\u2019s 45 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/01\/04\/wright-state-changing-lives-for-over-45-years\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20095,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20093\/revisions\/20095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}