{"id":50,"date":"2017-03-10T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=50"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:19:30","slug":"campus-briefs-the-scene-at-west-long-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/campus-briefs-the-scene-at-west-long-branch\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 400 graduates received degrees at this year\u2019s winter commencement ceremony, held January 13 in the OceanFirst Bank Center. John J. Esposito, chairman and chief executive officer of Warner Music Nashville, delivered the commencement address and received an honorary Doctor of Music degree, while Christie Pearce Rampone \u201999, HN \u201905 received the Distinguished Alumni Award. This year marked the final time the university will hold a winter commencement. Beginning in 2018, the spring commencement exercises will be reconfigured \u201cto better serve our distinct undergraduate and graduate cohorts,\u201d said President Brown in an announcement to campus last December.<\/p>\n

For the third year in a row, The Princeton Review has named Monmouth one of the country\u2019s most environmentally responsible universities. The 2016 edition of the company\u2019s Guide to 361 Green Colleges praised Monmouth for its commitment to sustainability based on academics and career preparation, \u201cgreen\u201d policies, initiatives, and activities.<\/p>\n

Former New Jersey governor and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman received Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute\u2019s highest honor, the National Champion of the Ocean Award, at a December reception held in conjunction with the institute\u2019s annual Future of the Ocean Symposium. Whitman was recognized for her service as a leading voice for the environment and for her outstanding contributions to coastal and ocean conservation and sustainable communities.<\/p>\n

Monmouth\u2019s 17th annual Big Event, which was held on Saturday, Nov. 5, sent hundreds of student volunteers into the towns surrounding campus, where they took part in cleanup and beautification projects at close to three dozen worksites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The scene at West Long Branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currents"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"Currents","issue":"Spring 2017","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}