{"id":3965,"date":"2015-05-11T07:35:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T07:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2015-05-10T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T12:35:26","slug":"dean-michael-thorp-86-meets-local-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/05\/11\/dean-michael-thorp-86-meets-local-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Michael Thorp &#8217;86 meets local alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3966\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/Thorp-6495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3966\" alt=\"Dr. Michael Thorp '86, Dean of Enrollment Management\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/Thorp-6495.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/Thorp-6495.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/Thorp-6495-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Michael Thorp &#8217;86, Dean of Enrollment Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Michael Thorp, flanked by Wabash legends David Phillips H&#8217;83 and Aus Brooks &#8217;61, talks with the Sugar Creek group during their weekly luncheon. \u00a0Michael had been on the job, in his words, for &#8220;4-point-5 days&#8221; at that point.<\/p>\n<p>Thorp talked about the opportunities that lie ahead for Admissions and Wabash. \u00a0He&#8217;s focused on a longer term recruiting cycle, engaging high school students earlier. \u00a0Using what he calls a systems-centered approach, his team hopes to identify young men who have what it takes to be Wabash men and start introducing them to Wabash as soon as we can.<\/p>\n<p>Michael was an athlete during his student days at Wabash and, it&#8217;s safe to say, is &#8220;off and running&#8221; in his new role!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michael Thorp, flanked by Wabash legends David Phillips H&#8217;83 and Aus Brooks &#8217;61, talks with the Sugar Creek group during their weekly luncheon. \u00a0Michael had been on the job, in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/Thorp-6495.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}