{"id":898,"date":"2012-07-20T17:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=898"},"modified":"2012-07-20T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:51:18","slug":"the-challenge-of-excellence-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/07\/20\/the-challenge-of-excellence-total\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge of Excellence &#8211; Total = ?????"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-899\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/excellence\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-899   \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2012-07-20-at-1.31.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2012-07-20-at-1.31.44-PM.png 892w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2012-07-20-at-1.31.44-PM-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Challenge of Excellence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Challenge of Excellence was launched in the Fall of 2010. \u00a0A three-year campaign to raise $60,000,000 focused directly on strengthening the student experience at Wabash, it has resonated with the Wabash community near and far.<\/p>\n<p>The results today, more than a year from the original completion date on June 30, 2013, are&#8230;well&#8230;I can&#8217;t tell you. \u00a0You can get a hint from the screen shot above&#8230;but only a hint.<\/p>\n<p>If the curiosity is getting you&#8230;there is an answer. \u00a0Be among the first to know by attending the Homecoming Celebration on Friday evening, September 28, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Like being the spoiler? \u00a0No sweat. \u00a0Drop by the Dean Jon Stern&#8217;s office on September 27, 2012 with a big check and watch us jump through the hoops. \u00a0We&#8217;ll do it though, I promise you.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos for the Challenge of Excellence go to President Pat White for his vision and leadership. \u00a0In addition, the &#8220;heavy lifting&#8221; by the staff was led by Dean Joe Emmick until his departure and then by our Director of Development, Alison Kothe. \u00a0We also wouldn&#8217;t be where we are without the sage advice of our Campaign Counsel, Charlie Witzleben, and the leadership of Trustees Allan Anderson and Ted Grossnickle. \u00a0Allan and Ted have served as co-chairmen of the COE.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Challenge of Excellence was launched in the Fall of 2010. \u00a0A three-year campaign to raise $60,000,000 focused directly on strengthening the student experience at Wabash, it has resonated with the Wabash [&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-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/Screen-Shot-2012-07-20-at-1.31.44-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}