{"id":9561,"date":"2020-04-12T15:56:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9561"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:04:15","slug":"news-press-now-to-preserve-the-institution-action-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/12\/news-press-now-to-preserve-the-institution-action-is-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: To preserve the institution, action is needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"tnt-byline\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-207x310.jpg\" alt=\"President Matt Wilson\" width=\"207\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-207x310.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/04\/Wilson1.jpg 1175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/>Matthew Wilson, <\/span>\u00a0Apr 11, 2020<\/p>\n<p>As an open access institution with a statewide applied learning mission, 大象传媒 Western serves as an invaluable resource for students, families and local communities. We are critical to attracting and retaining talent in our area. We are vital to the success of local industry and our society. It is important that we not only survive, but also thrive. To achieve both, we must be forward thinking and strategic.<\/p>\n<p>Higher education is facing unprecedented forces related to downward student enrollment trends, strained state funding, rising costs, facilities maintenance needs, tuition limits, long-term debt and online competition. Such forces have led universities (including Mizzou, UMKC, KU, NWMSU, MSU and others) to make significant reductions in personnel and programs in recent years. In some cases, universities have even closed. Now the COVID-19 crisis has added massive disruption to students, institutional operations and university finances.<\/p>\n<p>Without question, 大象传媒 Western is not immune to these forces. Our financial challenges are real and immediate.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full guest column by President Wilson, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/opinion\/to-preserve-the-institution-action-is-needed\/article_e5e77eaa-7b42-11ea-af50-8f57af6de49c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Wilson, \u00a0Apr 11, 2020 As an open access institution with a statewide applied learning mission, 大象传媒 Western serves as an invaluable resource for students, families and local communities. We are critical to attracting and retaining talent in our area. We are vital to the success of local industry and our society. It is important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9563,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions\/9563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}