{"id":11539,"date":"2025-04-18T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:44:08","slug":"more-than-500-students-make-a-difference-during-caring-for-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/04\/18\/more-than-500-students-make-a-difference-during-caring-for-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 students make a difference during Caring for Columbia\u00a0\u00a0"},"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\/04\/20250412_SA-DOS-Caring-For-Columbia_0027-1-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250412_SA-DOS-Caring-For-Columbia_0027-1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Students gathered at Traditions Plaza on Saturday morning to begin Caring for Columbia.\" class=\"wp-image-11540\" style=\"width:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250412_SA-DOS-Caring-For-Columbia_0027-1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250412_SA-DOS-Caring-For-Columbia_0027-1-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250412_SA-DOS-Caring-For-Columbia_0027-1-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250412_SA-DOS-Caring-For-Columbia_0027-1-scaled-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250412_SA-DOS-Caring-For-Columbia_0027-1-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/20250412_SA-DOS-Caring-For-Columbia_0027-1-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Students gathered at Traditions Plaza on Saturday morning to begin Caring for Columbia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Saturday, I had the honor of helping kick off Caring for Columbia \u2013 one of the largest student-run days of service at Mizzou \u2013 alongside Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Angela King Taylor and director of Caring for Columbia, Mizzou senior Kathryn Wenger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 550 Mizzou students volunteered their time at 25 local residences and 38 community sites around Columbia, including many nonprofits and schools. Volunteers included members of 54 student organizations, including Mizzou honor societies, student governments and fraternities and sororities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s inspiring to see our students\u2019 remarkable dedication to serving the community and making an impact for others. I\u2019m proud of all who participated, especially our student-leaders in Caring for Columbia who organized such a successful event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, I had the honor of helping kick off Caring for Columbia \u2013 one of the largest student-run days of service at Mizzou \u2013 alongside Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Angela King Taylor and director of Caring for Columbia, Mizzou senior Kathryn Wenger.&nbsp; Around 550 Mizzou students volunteered their time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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-11539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}