{"id":20080,"date":"2025-01-27T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=20080"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:32:13","slug":"nominate-for-2025-alumni-achievement-spirit-awards-deadline-is-jan-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2025\/01\/27\/nominate-for-2025-alumni-achievement-spirit-awards-deadline-is-jan-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominate for 2025 Alumni Achievement Spirit Awards, deadline is Jan. 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy&#8217;s Alumni Relations Office is accepting nominations for the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/events\/awards.php\">Alumni Achievement Spirit Awards<\/a>. This annual event during Homecoming recognizes seven alumni for their significant accomplishments in both their professional careers and in their commitment to community. Nominations are due <strong>Jan. 30.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you know of any alumni who are making or have made extraordinary achievements in their careers, please nominate them for this prestigious recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Award criteria includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominee should be a respected member of his\/her chosen profession (active or recently retired).<\/li>\n<li>Nominee has been recognized in their industry for exemplary professional achievements.<\/li>\n<li>Nominee should be engaged in the community, either with Detroit Mercy or another civic\/community organization.<\/li>\n<li>Nominee has demonstrated a willingness to financially support Detroit Mercy at some level either in the past or in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Nominee must be available to accept the award in person.<\/li>\n<li>Nominee shall not have received any University of School\/College award in the last five years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Spirit Awards are held annually during Homecoming weekend. You may view <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/events\/awards-past-winners.php\">honorees of past awards HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or any questions, please contact Director of Alumni Relations Peggy Pattison at 313-578-0327 or <a href=\"mailto:pattisma@udmercy.edu\">pattisma@udmercy.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/G3gec03HuE\"><strong>Submit nominations for 2025 Spirit Awards HERE!<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20086 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/01\/Spirit-awards-2024.jpg?resize=881%2C602&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An image of 7 people holding Spirit Awards in their hands.\" width=\"881\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/01\/Spirit-awards-2024.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/01\/Spirit-awards-2024.jpg?resize=768%2C525&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/01\/Spirit-awards-2024.jpg?w=790&amp;ssl=1 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy is once again looking for Spirit Award nominations. The Spirit Awards honor alumni achievement at the University. Online nominations for 2025 will be accepted until Jan. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":20086,"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":[59,621,1259,2387,709,241,1258],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/01\/Spirit-awards-2024.jpg?fit=790%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-5dS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080"}],"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\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20080"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20124,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20080\/revisions\/20124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}