{"id":13243,"date":"2013-12-11T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=13243"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T16:26:29","slug":"jumpstart-to-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=13243","title":{"rendered":"Jumpstart to finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of UCCS students got help with finals this week from the Office of Student Retention and First Year Experience and academic leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Assistance came in the form of plain or chocolate chip pancakes and cups of coffee doled out the evening of Dec. 10 at the Kraemer Family Library in El Pomar Center. Students also got free number two pencils, Scantron forms, blue books and others finals week necessities.<\/p>\n<p>Teri Switzer, dean, Kraemer Family Library, Terry Schwartz, associate dean, School of Public Affairs, Mary Snyder, dean, College of Education, and R. \u201cDan\u201d Dandapani, dean, College of Engineering and Applied Science, joined with Office of First Year Experience staff to dish out food and the occasional piece of advice.<\/p>\n<p>See photos of the event and Switzer\u2019s gingerbread rendition of El Pomar Center below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13242\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1545.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13242\" alt=\"IMG_1545\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1545-555x311.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1545-555x311.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1545-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teri Switzer, dean, Kraemer Family Library, created a gingerbread version of El Pomar Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13241\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1536.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13241\" alt=\"IMG_1536\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1536-555x370.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1536-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1536-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student receives pancakes made by Terry Schwartz, associate dean, School of Public Affairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13240\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1522.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13240\" alt=\"IMG_1522\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1522-555x311.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1522-555x311.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1522-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terry Schwartz, left, prepares pancakes under the instruction of Barbara Gaddis, executive director, Office of Student Retention and First Year Experience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13239\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1505.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13239\" alt=\"IMG_1505\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1505-555x311.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1505-555x311.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1505-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Snyder, left, dean, College of Education, and Teri Switzer, dean, Kraemer Family Library, prepare pancakes with the help of student staff members.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8212; Photos by Tom Hutton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dozens of UCCS students got help with finals this week from the Office of Student Retention and First Year Experience and academic leaders. Assistance came in the form of plain or chocolate chip pancakes and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=13243\" title=\"Jumpstart to finals\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-photo-features","tag-photo-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_1545-555x311.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-3rB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13352,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions\/13352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}