{"id":14475,"date":"2023-08-11T08:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T12:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=14475"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T20:08:29","slug":"udm-earns-michigan-veteran-friendly-designation-for-ninth-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2023\/08\/11\/udm-earns-michigan-veteran-friendly-designation-for-ninth-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UDM earns Michigan Veteran Friendly designation for ninth-straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14476 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/08\/MVAA-Veteran-Friendly-School-Gold-2023-2024.png?resize=161%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"New logo for MVAA Veteran-Friendly School, Gold, 2023-24.\" width=\"161\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/08\/MVAA-Veteran-Friendly-School-Gold-2023-2024.png?resize=250%2C300&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/08\/MVAA-Veteran-Friendly-School-Gold-2023-2024.png?resize=852%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 852w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/08\/MVAA-Veteran-Friendly-School-Gold-2023-2024.png?resize=768%2C923&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/08\/MVAA-Veteran-Friendly-School-Gold-2023-2024.png?resize=1279%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1279w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/08\/MVAA-Veteran-Friendly-School-Gold-2023-2024.png?resize=458%2C550&amp;ssl=1 458w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/08\/MVAA-Veteran-Friendly-School-Gold-2023-2024.png?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA) started the Michigan Veteran Friendly designation in 2015-16 and for the ninth-straight year, Detroit Mercy has once again been awarded Gold Friendly Status for 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>The Michigan Veteran-Friendly School program is designed to formally recognize academic institutions of higher learning committed to supporting the needs of student veterans and dependents.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, 47 institutions earned Gold-status, including Detroit Mercy. Any academic institution or training facility in Michigan eligible to receive veteran education benefits can apply for the program.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/current-students\/registrar\/veterans.php\">Learn more.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA) started the Michigan Veteran Friendly designation in 2015-16 and for the ninth-straight year, Detroit Mercy has once again been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":14476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[2727,4985,607,2731,2728],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/08\/MVAA-Veteran-Friendly-School-Gold-2023-2024.png?fit=1500%2C1802&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-3Lt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14524,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14475\/revisions\/14524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}