{"id":5016,"date":"2011-10-21T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2011-10-21T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T16:41:14","slug":"uccs-named-%e2%80%9cbest-of%e2%80%9d-by-indy-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=5016","title":{"rendered":"UCCS named \u201cBest of\u201d by Indy readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3667.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5017\" title=\"IMG_3667\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3667-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Best of 2011 t-shirts and plaque from the Colorado Springs Independent\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The readers of the <em>Colorado Springs Independent<\/em> named UCCS as the top \u201chigher ed for the money\u201d in the newspaper\u2019s 2011 Best of Colorado Springs edition published Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>In categories ranging from best bank to best place for a blind date,<em> Independent<\/em> readers stated their preferences for local businesses and institutions. In the \u201chigher ed for the money\u201d category, UCCS won over Pikes Peak Community College and Colorado College.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper\u2019s unsigned summary of UCCS follows<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdd this new category to one of UCCS\u2019 many recent achievements. This local extension of the University of Colorado is growing by leaps and bounds, expanding its engineering building, a rec center and, as of last month, approving the building of two new dorms planned for fall 2013, with a price tag of $16 million. Founded in 1965, UCCS now boasts a student body of 9,300, a program list that includes 36 bachelor\u2019s, 19 masters and five doctoral programs. And at least one thankful alum: With the help of one of my UCCS professors, I landed an internship at the Indy, leading me to a full-time job on the editorial staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A t-shirt and plaque were delivered to the Office of the Chancellor Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The readers of the Colorado Springs Independent named UCCS as the top \u201chigher ed for the money\u201d in the newspaper\u2019s 2011 Best of Colorado Springs edition published Oct. 20. In categories ranging from best bank <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=5016\" title=\"UCCS named \u201cBest of\u201d by Indy readers\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5017,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-kudos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_3667.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-1iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","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=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5020,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}