{"id":716,"date":"2017-06-21T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine?p=716"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:20:57","slug":"campus-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/campus-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"campusBriefs\">\n<li>Just four years removed from the program\u2019s winless inaugural season, men\u2019s lacrosse had its best season ever, capturing the MAAC regular season and tournament championships and making the program\u2019s first appearance in the NCAA tournament. The team\u2019s 14-4 overall record included perfect 6-0 marks in conference play and at home in 2017. In addition, Monmouth defeated its first ranked opponent, No. 16 Villanova, to begin the 2017 campaign, and earned its first national ranking in program history when it entered the NCAA Tournament on an 11-game winning streak.<\/li>\n<li>A juried exhibition of works by 28 artists, ages 16 to 41 and living with autism spectrum disorder, highlighted Monmouth University\u2019s Autism Awareness Month programming. The \u201cArt + Autism\u201d exhibition provided a window into the minds of young adults on the spectrum and showed they are every bit as capable and talented as anyone else, says Vaune Peck, director of the university\u2019s Center for the Arts, which helped organize the month of events. Select pieces from the exhibition were sold, with proceeds benefiting the Autism MVP Foundation and Autism Speaks.<\/li>\n<li>The university held four commencement ceremonies this spring. On May 10, undergraduates received degrees during a ceremony at PNC Bank Arts Center. The following day in OceanFirst Bank Center, Monmouth hosted its first separate commencement for graduate students. That evening, a special ceremony was held in Pollak Theatre for 17 men\u2019s lacrosse players who missed graduation due to their team\u2019s NCAA tournament game. And on May 17, President Dimenna conferred degrees on two softball players who missed graduation due to their team\u2019s MAAC tournament game.<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized Monmouth University as an Individual Conference Champion of the 2016\u201317 College &amp; University Green Power Challenge for using more green power than any other school in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Monmouth beat its MAAC rivals by using nearly 12 million kilowatt-hours of green power, representing 56 percent of the university\u2019s annual electricity usage.<\/li>\n<li>The university\u2019s Alpha Phi Sigma Criminal Justice Honor Society\u2019s \u201cPaws for a Cause\u201d event raised $1,631 for new K-9 bulletproof vests for the Monmouth County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/li>\n<li>Dozens of male faculty, staff, and students donned women\u2019s shoes and, accompanied by their female counterparts, traversed campus on April 5 to help bring awareness to sexual assault and gender violence. The annual \u201cWalk a Mile in Her Shoes\u201d event was coordinated by the Departments of Counseling and Psychological Services and Residential Life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scene at West Long Branch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":56,\"y\":61}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currents"],"thumbnail":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-300x201.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-742 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" role=\"presentation\" style=\"object-position:56% 61%\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-2800x1874.jpg 2800w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-1400x937.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-828x554.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-360x241.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse-9x6.jpg 9w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/06\/lacrosse.jpg 4000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>","catString":"Currents","issue":"Summer 2017","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}