{"id":298,"date":"2015-04-17T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T16:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-05-11T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:14:29","slug":"message-from-the-director-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/2015\/04\/17\/message-from-the-director-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Message From the Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy!!<\/p>\n<p>Wow! Since our last note to you \u2013 a great deal has taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Tremendous progress has been made on the beginning stages of the remodel of the Dimmitt Residence Complex. Amber Burg, an aspiring photo-journalist, has been chronicling the progress. Please see her report on the \u201cfront-page\u201d of our Alumni E-Newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-March, President John Reynders, delivered to the campus community \u2013 the latest draft of the Strategic Plan. This plan is the culmination of a Strategic Planning Task Force formed last summer to look at where we are with the college and where we need to go by the year 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As you know, the College recently polled alumni about a number of topics. Thank you to the hundreds of you that worked with us as we sought your input on how we did while you were here; what was important to you while here; how we impacted your life in some way. In the Spring-Summer issue of the Morningsider I want to direct your attention to President Reynders column. He will speak in some depth about the findings. At that same time, we will share with you \u2013 what you had to say to us and what it means.<\/p>\n<p>All the best\u2026until next time \u2013 SAVE THE DATE! HOMECOMING \u2013 2015 \u2013 OCTOBER 9\/10!!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2014\/10\/0077197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-image-67 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/files\/2014\/10\/0077197.jpg\" alt=\"0077197\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Ambroson<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy!! Wow! Since our last note to you \u2013 a great deal has taken place. Tremendous progress has been made on the beginning stages of the remodel of the Dimmitt Residence Complex. Amber Burg, an aspiring photo-journalist, has been chronicling the progress. Please see her report on the \u201cfront-page\u201d of our Alumni E-Newsletter. In mid-March, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}