{"id":23230,"date":"2013-08-21T09:03:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=23230"},"modified":"2013-08-30T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:44:37","slug":"jeff-vernooy-played-key-roles-in-making-wright-state-more-accessible-to-those-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/21\/jeff-vernooy-played-key-roles-in-making-wright-state-more-accessible-to-those-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Vernooy played key roles in making Wright State more accessible to those with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Vernooy, who died Monday at 61, was the driving force behind many of the programs that make Wright State University one of the top disability-friendly schools in the nation, colleagues said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201ctremendous role model,\u201d Vernooy spent his 36-year career at Wright State ensuring students could not only earn a degree, but build a career after graduation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was very respected on the campus,\u201d said Katherine Myers, interim director of the Office of Disability Services. \u201cJeff was very passionate about the diversity of our campus and having people understand the differences of our populations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local-education\/former-wright-state-official-dies-at-61\/nZTgm\/\" target=\"_blank\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Jeffrey Vernooy, who died Monday at 61, was the driving force behind many of the programs that make Wright State University one of the top disability-friendly schools in the nation, colleagues said Tuesday. A \u201ctremendous role model,\u201d Vernooy spent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/08\/21\/jeff-vernooy-played-key-roles-in-making-wright-state-more-accessible-to-those-with-disabilities\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2041,714,2042,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-of-disability-services","category-for-the-media","category-offices","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23230","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=23230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23484,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23230\/revisions\/23484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}