{"id":24851,"date":"2016-11-04T10:18:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T16:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=24851"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:10:49","slug":"uccs-to-recognize-veterans-day-with-panel-discussion-on-service-dogs-other-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=24851","title":{"rendered":"UCCS to recognize Veterans Day with panel discussion on service dogs, other events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UCCS will recognize Veterans Day with a resource fair, a panel discussion about the role of canines in the military and veterans community as well as other events.\u00a0<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24879 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Veterans-Week-300x388.jpg\" alt=\"veterans-week\" width=\"300\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Veterans-Week-300x388.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Veterans-Week-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Veterans-Week-750x971.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Veterans-Week-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Veterans-Week.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UCCS Office of Veteran and Military Student Affairs will host the following events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reception for staff and faculty veterans and family members<\/strong>, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 7, Public Safety Department training room adjacent to McCord-Herbst Student Veteran Center.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Panel discussion: &#8220;Animals on Campus: Service Dogs and other animals at UCCS,&#8221;<\/strong> 6-8 p.m. Nov. 9, Berger Hall. Representatives from Office of Compliance, Dean of Students, Public Safety, Veteran Health and Trauma Center will discuss service dogs, emotional therapy animals and comfort animals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marine Corps birthday<\/strong> cake cutting ceremony, noon-1 p.m. Nov. 10, McCord-Herbst Student Veteran Center. To honor the\u00a0241<sup>st<\/sup> birthday of the United States Marine Corps.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Veterans Day Resource Fair<\/strong>, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 11, Dwire Hall Atrium, with representatives from \u00a0service, support, volunteer and employment assistance organizations.\u00a0 A portion of the fair will be dedicated to canines &#8211; &#8220;The Canine Spectrum of Character: Battle, Service, Therapy, Comfort&#8221; will include representatives from organizations providing research on and access to canine involvement in personal support and therapy. Also, a series of talks will be given in Dwire Room 103. \u00a0Topics include stress and tips to mitigate stressful situations;\u00a0canine therapy, comfort and services; and recognition of veteran service dogs with a talk on the history and evolution of canine service in the military.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Office of Veteran and Military Student Affairs will host coffees at various locations on campus during the week: Monday in the University Center, Tuesday and Thursday in Columbine Hall and Wednesday in Osborne Center for Science and Engineeringyc.<\/p>\n<p>The office also is encouraging participation in the 4th annual National Veterans Day Run in Colorado Springs, a 5K or 1-mile walk, 7:11 a.m. Nov. 11 in Memorial Park near downtown Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>For information on any of the events,\u00a0contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:military@uccs.edu\">military@uccs.edu<\/a>\u00a0or call 255-3253.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UCCS will recognize Veterans Day with a resource fair as well as a panel discussion about the role of canines in the military and veterans community as well as a resource fair. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=24851\" title=\"UCCS to recognize Veterans Day with panel discussion on service dogs, other events\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24882,"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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-24851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","tag-department-of-public-safety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Veterans-Week-300x388-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-6sP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24851"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24884,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24851\/revisions\/24884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}