{"id":12506,"date":"2025-12-22T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/?p=12506"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:46:54","slug":"mizzou-made-history-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/mizzou-made-history-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizzou made history in 2025"},"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\/12\/20251219_HON_Commencement-003-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251219_HON_Commencement-003-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"President Choi at the Honors College December 2025 commencement ceremony.\" class=\"wp-image-12529\" style=\"width:325px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251219_HON_Commencement-003-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251219_HON_Commencement-003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251219_HON_Commencement-003-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251219_HON_Commencement-003-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251219_HON_Commencement-003-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251219_HON_Commencement-003-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to the <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2025\/mizzou-to-award-more-than-1800-degrees-at-winter-commencement\/\">nearly 1,700 Tigers<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2025\/photo-gallery-december-2025-commencement\/\">graduated last weekend<\/a> \u2013 as well as to the military officers commissioned through Mizzou Army, Air Force and Naval ROTC. We\u2019re so proud of our newest alumni and can\u2019t wait to see the great things you\u2019ll accomplish next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 was an <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2025\/mizzou-thrived-in-2025\/\">incredible year at Mizzou<\/a>, including milestones like the <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2025\/mizzou-launches-historic-campaign-to-address-global-challenges-and-improve-lives\/\">launch of our transformative Power the Roar<\/a> campaign and our thrilling <a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2025\/9\/6\/football-mizzou-defeats-kansas-in-storagemart-border-showdown\">win over kU in the Border Showdown<\/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\/12\/Gator-Bowl-2-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1076\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Gator-Bowl-2-edited.jpg\" alt=\"TaxSlayer Gator Bowl featuring Mizzou and Virginia.\" class=\"wp-image-12514\" style=\"width:325px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Gator-Bowl-2-edited.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Gator-Bowl-2-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Gator-Bowl-2-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Gator-Bowl-2-edited-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1076px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the semester has ended, our momentum continues. We need all fans and supporters to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mizzou.com\/s\/1002\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1002&amp;gid=1001&amp;pgid=15847&amp;cid=33637&amp;ecid=33637&amp;crid=0&amp;calpgid=10272&amp;calcid=21332\">join us in Jacksonville, Florida<\/a> on December 27 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxslayergatorbowl.com\/\">TaxSlayer Gator Bowl<\/a> \u2013 where Coach Drinkwitz and the Tigers will take on the Virginia Cavaliers. We also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofevo.com\/event\/2025mizzou821\">special ticket offer just for Mizzou students<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters for your dedication to excellence throughout the year. I look forward to working with you to build on our success in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the nearly 1,700 Tigers who graduated last weekend \u2013 as well as the military officers commissioned through Mizzou Army, Air Force and Naval ROTC. We\u2019re so proud of our newest alumni and can\u2019t wait to see the great things you\u2019ll accomplish next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506","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=12506"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12539,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12506\/revisions\/12539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}