{"id":34034,"date":"2014-10-24T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=34034"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:42:22","slug":"raj-soin-college-of-business-breaks-ground-for-student-operated-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/10\/24\/raj-soin-college-of-business-breaks-ground-for-student-operated-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Raj Soin College of Business breaks ground for student-operated cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34035\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/10\/RSCOB-coffee-groundbreaking2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34035\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34035\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/10\/RSCOB-coffee-groundbreaking2-508x233.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee shop groundbreaking\" width=\"460\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State\u2019s Raj Soin College of Business broke ground on a coffee shop\u00a0designed to give students the experience of running a business.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Officials broke ground for a coffee cafe at Wright State\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/business.wright.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raj Soin College of Business<\/a> designed to give students the experience of running a business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things we take great pride in at Wright State is making sure we do everything possible to give our students real-world learning experience,\u201d President David R. Hopkins said at the Oct. 22 groundbreaking ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Rike Hall, the College of Business building, will be extended to create the 1,100-square-foot cafe, which will feature a variety of Boston Stoker coffees as well as salads, sandwiches and baked goods. It is projected to open in the early summer.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Lamb, president of Reynolds and Reynolds, said the company is proud to be the major corporate sponsor supporting the project. He noted that more than 200 Wright State alumni currently work for Reynolds and Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize that a university like Wright State is critical to the community, to its growth, its strength,\u201d Lamb said.<\/p>\n<p>Business students will be involved in all aspects of day-to-day operations, from hiring, training and managing fellow students to ordering supplies and marketing the cafe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no better business education than giving an opportunity to students to actually practice it,\u201d said Joanne Li, dean of the business college. \u201cAnd it emphasizes the fact that this is a workforce-ready student body. Today we break ground, tomorrow we change minds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New cafe will give students in the Raj Soin College of Business the experience of running a business. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/10\/24\/raj-soin-college-of-business-breaks-ground-for-student-operated-cafe\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":34036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,748,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-business","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34034","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34039,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34034\/revisions\/34039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}