{"id":5922,"date":"2021-03-09T09:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2021-03-09T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:25:06","slug":"engaging-and-supporting-our-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2021\/03\/09\/engaging-and-supporting-our-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging and supporting our communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft wp-image-5925 size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/CASA-image-300x163.png\" alt=\"A photo of Kappa Alpha Theta members showing their support for the CASA program.\" class=\"wp-image-5925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/CASA-image-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/CASA-image-1024x557.png 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/CASA-image-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/CASA-image-1536x835.png 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/CASA-image-2048x1114.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kappa Alpha Theta members showing their support for the CASA program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was riding my moped around campus on Saturday, I noticed the colorful displays and posters at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. There, the<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Theta&nbsp;women were celebrating their support for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcasagal.org\/\">CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)<\/a> program, having raised over $16,000 this past year. CASA supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children, and its volunteers work closely with children to find a safe, permanent home that gives children the opportunity to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the work happening throughout many other student-run and student-supported organizations and clinics \u2014 including Mizzou Alternative Breaks, Tiger Pantry and our COVID-19 vaccination clinics \u2014 our students improve the lives of others who are in great need. I am so proud of their commitment to this charge. It&#8217;s yet another illustration of how Mizzou works to fulfill its mission of engagement and service every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was riding my moped around campus on Saturday, I noticed the colorful displays and posters at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. There, the&nbsp;Theta&nbsp;women were celebrating their support for the&nbsp;CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) program, having raised over $16,000 this past year. CASA supports and promotes court-appointed advocates for abused or neglected children, and [&hellip;]<\/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-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","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=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}