{"id":27112,"date":"2024-08-01T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/?p=27112"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:33:30","slug":"uci-director-to-chair-mcf-educational-outreach-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2024\/08\/01\/uci-director-to-chair-mcf-educational-outreach-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI Director to Chair MCF Educational Outreach Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" style=\"object-position: 38.803% 45.749%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2024\/03\/macdonald-press-conf-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2024\/03\/macdonald-press-conf-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2024\/03\/macdonald-press-conf-768x980.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2024\/03\/macdonald-press-conf-118x150.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2024\/03\/macdonald-press-conf.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Urban Coast Institute (UCI) Director Tony MacDonald, who serves as a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouthconservation.org\/\">Monmouth Conservation Foundation<\/a> (MCF) Board of Trustees, has been appointed as the chair of the organization\u2019s\u00a0Educational Outreach (EO) Committee. In this role, MacDonald will work with the EO Committee members and MCF staff to help guide the development of an education and outreach plan to reach Monmouth County residents of all ages, focused on environmental sustainability and quality of life related to MCF\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Middletown-based MCF\u2019s core mission is to acquire and preserve open space and farmland and conserve natural habitats throughout Monmouth County in support of outdoor recreation, agriculture, clean water, and wildlife for long-term sustainability. Founded in 1977, the MCF is an independent nonprofit land trust that has preserved more than 9,400 acres of green space in Monmouth County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Coast Institute (UCI) Director Tony MacDonald, who serves as a member of the\u00a0Monmouth Conservation Foundation (MCF) Board of Trustees, has been appointed as the chair of the organization\u2019s\u00a0Educational Outreach (EO) Committee. In this role, MacDonald will work with the EO Committee members and MCF staff to help guide the development of an education and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":17797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 14:06:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27113,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27112\/revisions\/27113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}