{"id":56865,"date":"2015-09-04T08:57:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/09\/04\/outstanding-unit-3\/"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:49:04","slug":"outstanding-unit-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/09\/04\/outstanding-unit-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7821\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/dialogue\/files\/2015\/08\/16125-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7821\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7821\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/dialogue\/files\/2015\/08\/16125-002-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Wright State University faculty and staff.\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State University faculty and staff.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For years, faculty and staff at Wright State\u2019s Lake Campus have provided compassionate care to a colleague and her family, through a campus-wide year of compassion campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Showman, Ph.D., assistant professor of liberal arts, was a catalyst for the Year of Compassion, recognizing the needs of her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the quick action from Lake Campus faculty and staff, \u201cI have been humbled by the generosity of spirit and the helping hands that come out at a moments notice,\u201d said Bonnie Mathies, recent retired dean of Lake Campus.<\/p>\n<p>With a simple invitation for volunteerism many faculty and staff members have selflessly stepped up in both big and small ways&#8211;without expectation of recognition or awards.<\/p>\n<p>A disabled Lake Campus faculty member, her husband who is also disabled and their two young children have been the focus of support.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty and staff have been continually showing compassion for the family through both simple and complex tasks including: shoveling snow, providing rides to Cub Scout meetings, changing window screens, mowing the lawn, baking cookies, helping with birthday parties and taking on a myriad of other chores and activities.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Campus faculty and staff \u201care grateful for the family to allow them to be intentional about their practice of compassion as a university community,\u201d Mathies said.<\/p>\n<p>Mathies said the mantra is \u201cdo what you can \u2026 when you can \u2026 how you can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, faculty and staff at Wright State\u2019s Lake Campus have provided compassionate care to a colleague and her family, through a campus-wide year of compassion campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/09\/04\/outstanding-unit-3\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":56869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[715,2402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-presidents-awards-for-excellence","series-presidents-awards-for-excellence-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56865","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=56865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57009,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56865\/revisions\/57009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}