{"id":30764,"date":"2018-03-21T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=30764"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T18:05:19","slug":"faculty-celebrated-at-campus-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=30764","title":{"rendered":"Faculty celebrated at campus reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30766\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/christensen-reception17.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30766\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/christensen-reception17-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"Provost Christensen speaks at the podium at the faculty reception.\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/christensen-reception17-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/christensen-reception17-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/christensen-reception17-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/christensen-reception17-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/christensen-reception17-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Provost Tom Christensen speaks at the 2018 faculty reception March 14 in Berger Hall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chancellor Venkat Reddy, Provost Tom Christensen and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Kelli Klebe showed their appreciation for the work of faculty at a campus reception March 14 in Berger Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thinking back to what this place was like when I came in 1989, and it\u2019s hard to put into words how this place has changed in that time,\u201d Christensen said at the event. \u201cWe\u2019re really making an impact on the students here in southern Colorado and I want to thank you for all that you do to make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the last year, UCCS faculty have contributed nearly 100,000 hours of service in professional, public or university settings, and more than 1,000 scholarly contributions in books, publications, presentations, artistic works and funding grants. More than 3,500 sections were taught in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a bright future for our campus, both for where we are and where we can go,\u201d Reddy said in his remarks. \u201cThe most important thing that you\u2019re doing, as you do your research, service and teaching, is that you\u2019re building future leaders and critical thinkers that are going to be with us in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chancellor Venkat Reddy, Provost Tom Christensen and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Kelli Klebe showed their appreciation for the work of faculty at a campus reception March 14 in Berger Hall. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=30764\" title=\"Faculty celebrated at campus reception\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30766,"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":[1,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/christensen-reception17.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-80c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30776,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30764\/revisions\/30776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}