{"id":5442,"date":"2017-01-20T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:22:22","slug":"meet-the-world-introduces-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/20\/meet-the-world-introduces-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Meet the World&#8217; introduces international students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/01\/Meet-the-World.jpg\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a>The Office of International Student Services at Missouri Western State University presents \u201cMeet the World,\u201d a speed-meeting event to meet new and returning international students from around the world. The event is free and open to the public at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum 218-219.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of an hour, participants will have the opportunity to briefly talk one-on-one to international students to learn more about them and their home culture.<\/p>\n<p>This semester, Missouri Western has 18 new international students from 10 different countries. Overall, there are about 120 international students from 35 countries currently attending Missouri Western.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of International Student Services at Missouri Western State University presents \u201cMeet the World,\u201d a speed-meeting event to meet new and returning international students from around the world. The event is free and open to the public at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum 218-219. Over the course of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8248,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions\/8248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}