{"id":49009,"date":"2019-10-03T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=49009"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T19:01:21","slug":"%ef%bb%bfribbon-cutting-will-open-new-kansas-army-national-guard-office-at-fort-hays-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=49009","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffRibbon cutting will open new Kansas Army National Guard office at Fort Hays State University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kansas Army National Guard will mark the opening of a new office on the campus of Fort Hays State University with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, in the university\u2019s Memorial Union. <br> \u00a0 <br> Attending the ceremony will be Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, the Kansas adjutant general, and FHSU President Tisa Mason along with other FHSU faculty members. <br> \u00a0 <br> The new office will be staffed by members of the Kansas National Guard Recruiting and Retention Office, who will provide members of the Fort Hays State community with information on the educational and professional benefits of enlisting in the Kansas National Guard. <br> \u00a0 <br> \u201cThese partnerships between the Kansas National Guard and our state&#8217;s community colleges and universities are mutually beneficial,\u201d said Tafanelli. \u201cThe men and women who attend these institutions are smart, eager and committed to improving their state and communities; they&#8217;re just the sort of people we want in the Guard. <br> \u00a0 <br> \u201cAnd the students receive great educational benefits as members of the Guard, not just in terms of tuition, but also because of the many great career opportunities we offer. For just about any field of study they have as a student, you can find a correlating career in the Guard.\u201d <br> \u00a0 <br> President Mason welcomed the expansion of the university\u2019s relationship with the Guard. <br> <br> \u201cWe take great pride in being able to support these men and women whose sacrifice, dedication and selfless service inspires us all,\u201d she said. \u201cI think what makes us attractive as an education partner is the high-quality programs, unmatched affordability, and dedicated and caring faculty and staff we offer to value-conscious Guard members who want to advance in their civilian and military careers.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS The Kansas Army National Guard will mark the opening of a new office on the campus of Fort Hays State University with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49010,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49009\/revisions\/49010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}