{"id":67602,"date":"2019-05-02T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=67602"},"modified":"2019-05-02T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T19:20:34","slug":"officially-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/05\/02\/officially-raiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Officially Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future Wright State students were greeted with smiles, handshakes, back pats and congratulatory fist bumps. There were free T-shirts, 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 on May 1 for Wright State\u2019s third 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 share 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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/admissions\/undergraduate\">undergraduate admissions<\/a>. \u201cWe have a bunch of students talk about when they get on campus how comfortable it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Incoming student Autumn Sturdevant plans to major in marketing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a really good feeling to be here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of incoming students crowded into the Student Union on May 1 for Wright State\u2019s third Signing Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/05\/02\/officially-raiders\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":67606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2048,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-enrollment-management","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67602","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67610,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67602\/revisions\/67610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}