{"id":8798,"date":"2020-02-25T10:17:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:43:03","slug":"success-and-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/success-and-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Success and Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Six months into my tenure, several elements\nhave come into clearer focus that I think really shape the character of the\nUniversity. What stands out to me is a special blend of academic excellence and\naccess to opportunity for our students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 25 years since Monmouth attained\nuniversity status, we have been on a steady march to becoming a first-rate\nacademic institution. That progress has certainly accelerated in recent years.\nAt the same time, we are also proud of the fact that one-third of our\nundergraduate students receive federal Pell Grants, awarded to students with\nthe greatest financial need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Monmouth, nearly half of our students\u201445\npercent\u2014are the first in their family to pursue a four-year college degree.\nTwenty-nine percent of our students self-identify as diverse. Taken together,\nthese measures of access are very uncommon for a private Division I institution\nand will continue to inform our ongoing strategic planning process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we can unleash academic excellence and\ncontinue to open our doors to that kind of access, Monmouth will stake its\nclaim to a national reputation as an institution that is both highly ranked and\nhighly accessible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am pleased that this issue of Monmouth <\/em>magazine\nshowcases areas where our intellectual heft and our commitment to access shine.\nIn \u201cOur Warming Planet,\u201d Breanne McCarthy gathers diverse perspectives on\nclimate change from a cross section of faculty in different disciplines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closer to campus, in \u201cCross Talk,\u201d Tony\nMarchetti profiles two students who are the first to matriculate to Monmouth as\na result of our Future Scholars program, in which graduate interns from the\neducational counseling program mentor 6th through 12th graders in the Long\nBranch public schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is so much about our University that\nmakes me proud, from our championship athletic programs, to our engaging\nthought leadership, and to so many alumni success stories. This issue of the\nmagazine covers them all. Enjoy! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A look at Monmouth\u2019s growth 25 years Into its university status. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":8802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":53,\"y\":0}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-currents","category-presidents-note"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"Currents, President\u2019s Note","issue":"Spring 2020","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9285,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions\/9285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}