{"id":9760,"date":"2020-07-04T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T16:03:52","slug":"news-press-now-missouri-western-goes-virtual-for-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/04\/news-press-now-missouri-western-goes-virtual-for-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Missouri Western goes virtual for orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"size-large alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/8\/74\/87445724-bcd3-11ea-a7a3-b76b0e8ef1ef\/5efe9604d5269.image.jpg?resize=413%2C234\" alt=\"reserved for future griffons parking sign\" width=\"413\" height=\"234\" \/>Usually around this time of year Missouri Western State University is welcoming hundreds of incoming freshmen for fall orientation.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has forced admissions to switch sessions to a blended platform using Zoom calls and website links.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we were nervous about shifting that kind of experience to online,\u201d said Missouri Western Events &amp; New Student Program Coordinator Melissa Stallbaumer. \u201cSo far, we\u2019ve seen them go fairly smoothly and technology has worked great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/coronavirus\/western-goes-virtual-for-orientation\/article_04661ad6-bc79-11ea-9cff-1f1ca365e9f5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually around this time of year Missouri Western State University is welcoming hundreds of incoming freshmen for fall orientation. COVID-19 has forced admissions to switch sessions to a blended platform using Zoom calls and website links. \u201cI think we were nervous about shifting that kind of experience to online,\u201d said Missouri Western Events &amp; New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760"}],"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=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9761,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions\/9761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}