{"id":38216,"date":"2015-09-23T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=38216"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:56:53","slug":"wright-state-university-chosen-to-host-first-presidential-debate-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/09\/23\/wright-state-university-chosen-to-host-first-presidential-debate-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State University chosen to host first presidential debate of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/09\/debate-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38225 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/09\/debate-logo-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Debate logo\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced today that Wright State University has been selected to host the first debate in fall 2016 prior to the November general election.<\/p>\n<p>The debate will be held Sept. 26, 2016, at the Wright State University Nutter Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not be any prouder of our university and the fact that the Commission on Presidential Debates has entrusted Wright State to host such an important event,&#8221; said Wright State University President David R. Hopkins. \u201cThe Commission had the daunting challenge of selecting just a few institutions and the fact that Wright State was selected is very gratifying and humbling. I am confident that our university will excel in supporting the Commission and represent our students, faculty and staff, community, and the State of Ohio in a way that will make us all proud. This is a huge win for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38220\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/09\/Wright-State-University-Nutter-Center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38220\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38220\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2015\/09\/Wright-State-University-Nutter-Center-260x146.jpg\" alt=\"The Wright State University Nutter Center\" width=\"260\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wright State University Nutter Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The CPD is a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation and has sponsored all general election presidential and vice presidential debates since 1988. To learn more about the CPD visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debates.org\/\">debates.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Wright State, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/\">Wright State University Newsroom<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/\">wright.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidential Debate will be held Sept. 26, 2016, at the Wright State University Nutter Center. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/09\/23\/wright-state-university-chosen-to-host-first-presidential-debate-of-2016\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":38225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,733,729,748,4291,2041,743,2048,2043,2060,2017,744,725,2045,731,747,2016,715,746,2117,719,2119,2061,2113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-around-campus","category-business","category-debate","category-office-of-disability-services","category-engineering-computer-science","category-enrollment-management","category-facilities-planning","category-graduate","category-nursing-health","category-education-human-services","category-home-news-sidebar","category-honors-program","category-lake-campus","category-liberal-arts","category-medicine","category-news","category-science-mathematics","category-service-learning-and-civic-engagement","category-special-categories","category-university-college","category-undergraduate","category-university-center-for-international-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38216","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=38216"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41853,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38216\/revisions\/41853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}