{"id":9523,"date":"2024-01-17T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=9523"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:37:44","slug":"starting-a-historic-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2024\/01\/17\/starting-a-historic-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a historic 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/20240110_CMS_Snow_ANL-011-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240110_CMS_Snow_ANL-011-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Francis Quad covered in snow, with the Columns and Jesse Hall in the background\" class=\"wp-image-9524\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/campus-messages\/january-16-2024-welcome-to-a-new-semester\/\">welcome all students, faculty and staff<\/a>&nbsp;to a new semester!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though 2024 just began, momentum is already building for next fall. More than 21,500 students have applied to become Tigers. That\u2019s a record-setting pace and 14% higher than last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students in Missouri and around the country are discovering the value of a Mizzou education. Our high graduation rate (76%) and retention rate (91.3%),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2023\/time-magazine-names-university-of-missouri-as-one-of-the-best-colleges-for-future-leaders\/?utm_campaign=449308_Welcome%20to%20a%20new%20semester%21&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=The%20Curators%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Missouri&amp;dm_i=7IQU,9MOS,4PANIF,1DSS4,1\">industry-leading alumni<\/a>\u00a0and affordable tuition make us a top choice for future leaders. We\u2019re also the seventh best value of all flagship universities, according to U.S. News &amp; World Report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for being a part of Mizzou. I\u2019m looking forward to a great semester and another outstanding year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to&nbsp;welcome all students, faculty and staff&nbsp;to a new semester! Though 2024 just began, momentum is already building for next fall. More than 21,500 students have applied to become Tigers. That\u2019s a record-setting pace and 14% higher than last year. Students in Missouri and around the country are discovering the value of a Mizzou [&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-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","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=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}