{"id":40802216324,"date":"2017-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/our-monmouth-community-in-these-times\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T23:02:45","slug":"our-monmouth-community-in-these-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/our-monmouth-community-in-these-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Monmouth Community in These Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/08\/mu-pres-seal.jpg\" alt=\"president seal\" title=\"president seal\" width=\"280\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dear students, friends and colleagues:<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>Our shared commitment to building a community of mutual caring and respect, diversity, and integrity does not stop when classes are finished, or take a pause before the new academic year begins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>The sad and shocking events in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend are a stark reminder that our educational mission is vital, and perhaps more important than ever, to extinguish bigotry and violence, and to affect positive change in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>As an academic enterprise based on exploration of diverse thought, we must balance freedom of expression with an active commitment to ensuring a safe and inclusive environment for every individual, without exception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>As we prepare to come together on campus in just a few short weeks, I know you will join me in condemning hatred, bigotry, and violence in all forms as well as offering support to those who may be feeling vulnerable. I look forward to working with all of you to ensure a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming campus for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span>Grey J. Dimenna, Esq.<br \/>President<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear students, friends and colleagues: Our shared commitment to building a community of mutual caring and respect, diversity, and integrity does not stop when classes are finished, or take a pause before the new academic year begins. The sad and shocking events in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend are a stark reminder that our educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802216324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802216324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802216324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802216324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802218841,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802216324\/revisions\/40802218841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802216324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802216324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802216324"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802216324"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802216324"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802216324"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802216324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}