{"id":11092,"date":"2025-01-17T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2025-01-17T10:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:14:04","slug":"thanking-our-dedicated-campus-facilities-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/01\/17\/thanking-our-dedicated-campus-facilities-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanking our dedicated Campus Facilities staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Choi-at-facilities-lunch-1-edited-1-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Choi-at-facilities-lunch-1-edited-1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"President Choi with Ava Wood, a student worker in Landscape Services.\" class=\"wp-image-11102\" style=\"width:290px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Choi-at-facilities-lunch-1-edited-1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Choi-at-facilities-lunch-1-edited-1-scaled-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Choi-at-facilities-lunch-1-edited-1-scaled-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Choi-at-facilities-lunch-1-edited-1-scaled-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Choi-at-facilities-lunch-1-edited-1-scaled-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Choi-at-facilities-lunch-1-edited-1-scaled-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Choi with Ava Wood, a student worker in Landscape Services.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, I joined Associate Vice Chancellor of Campus Facilities Michael Graves in hosting a thank-you lunch for the crews who kept campus safe during the recent winter weather. In addition to clearing streets and sidewalks, Campus Facilities teams also helped prepare Memorial Stadium for a rare snow game on Nov. 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2024\/11\/30\/football-mizzou-keeps-battle-line-trophy-tops-arkansas-28-21.aspx\">against the Arkansas Razorbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Graves-at-facilities-lunch-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1306\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Graves-at-facilities-lunch-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Associate Vice Chancellor Graves addresses team members during the thank-you lunch.\" class=\"wp-image-11094\" style=\"width:290px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Graves-at-facilities-lunch-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Graves-at-facilities-lunch-scaled-1-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Graves-at-facilities-lunch-scaled-1-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Graves-at-facilities-lunch-scaled-1-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Graves-at-facilities-lunch-scaled-1-1536x784.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Graves-at-facilities-lunch-scaled-1-2048x1045.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Associate Vice Chancellor Graves addresses team members during the thank-you lunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Vice Chancellor Graves, Chief of Staff John Middleton and I all expressed gratitude for the dedication of Campus Facilities team members. Their resilience supports Mizzou faculty, staff and students during the winter months and throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou has more than 650 Campus Facilities staff who ensure we deliver our mission of teaching, research and meaningful engagement. I enjoyed meeting so many team members and showing our appreciation. They are an integral part of the Mizzou community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, I joined Associate Vice Chancellor of Campus Facilities Michael Graves in hosting a thank-you lunch for the crews who kept campus safe during the recent winter weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}