{"id":3771,"date":"2025-12-22T13:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:15:23","slug":"bringing-our-best-to-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/2025\/12\/22\/bringing-our-best-to-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Our Best to 2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Members of the Monmouth University Community:<br><br>2025 may be coming to a close, but we are just getting started\u2026<br>Thank you for your support throughout this calendar year.<br><br>Let\u2019s celebrate our progress, close the year with gratitude, and look towards all that we are bringing to 2026.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BjXkJ-YOMoY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/726\/2025\/12\/25_yearend_gh_thumbnail-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"Thumbnail view of video featuring aerial image of the Great Hall at Monmouth University\" class=\"wp-image-3768\" style=\"width:683px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/726\/2025\/12\/25_yearend_gh_thumbnail-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/726\/2025\/12\/25_yearend_gh_thumbnail-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/726\/2025\/12\/25_yearend_gh_thumbnail-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/726\/2025\/12\/25_yearend_gh_thumbnail-1536x870.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/726\/2025\/12\/25_yearend_gh_thumbnail.jpg 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wishing you a restful break and a Happy New Year!<br><br>Dr. Patrick F. Leahy<br>President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","tag-2025-2026-academic-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}