{"id":52268,"date":"2018-05-10T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=52268"},"modified":"2018-05-10T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:29:44","slug":"fairborn-daily-herald-students-commit-to-wright-state-at-signing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/05\/10\/fairborn-daily-herald-students-commit-to-wright-state-at-signing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairborn Daily Herald: Students commit to Wright State at signing day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52173\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2018\/05\/pic8880-508x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Future Wright State University students were greeted with smiles, handshakes, back pats and congratulatory fist bumps. There were snacks, music, balloons and souvenir photos. And the students walked away with gold-stickered certificates making them official Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of incoming students crowded into the Student Union May 1 for Wright State\u2019s second Signing Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Student Union Apollo Room teemed with new students, many of them taking selfies to record the milestone in their lives and post on social media. Colleges, clubs and departments staffed information tables. College deans floated around the room, interacting with students and parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome all of our future Raiders to campus,\u201d said Jen McCamis, director of undergraduate admissions. \u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity for students to sign the letter to just feel empowered to make that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Incoming student Jenny Thompson, originally from Florida, plans to major in nursing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to sign to Wright State and I\u2019m officially a Raider now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>View the original post at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairborndailyherald.com\/features\/community\/27164\/students-commit-to-wsu-at-signing-day\">fairborndailyherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Future Wright State University students were greeted with smiles, handshakes, back pats and congratulatory fist bumps. There were snacks, music, balloons and souvenir photos. And the students walked away with gold-stickered certificates making them official Raiders. Hundreds of incoming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/05\/10\/fairborn-daily-herald-students-commit-to-wright-state-at-signing-day\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":52172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52268","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\/52268","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=52268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52270,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268\/revisions\/52270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}