{"id":8479,"date":"2021-10-25T14:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=8479"},"modified":"2021-10-25T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T21:12:01","slug":"detroit-mercy-students-support-micu-advocacy-day-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2021\/10\/25\/detroit-mercy-students-support-micu-advocacy-day-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Mercy students support MICU Advocacy Day efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8481\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8481\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8481 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/10\/Marshall_Bullock_students.jpg?resize=300%2C282&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Detroit Mercy students Jaylin Brown, Natalia Grasso, Crystal Poota and Sonya Simmons stand with representative Marshall Bullock of District 4 in Detroit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/10\/Marshall_Bullock_students.jpg?resize=300%2C282&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2021\/10\/Marshall_Bullock_students.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detroit Mercy students Jaylin Brown, Natalia Grasso, Crystal Poota and Sonya Simmons stand with representative Marshall Bullock of District 4 in Detroit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On Wednesday,\u00a0member institutions of the Michigan Independent Colleges &amp; Universities (MICU) gathered at the Michigan State Capitol for the 2021 Independent Colleges and Universities\u00a0Day\u00a0(Advocacy\u00a0Day). Hundreds of students from MICU institutions came together to make important statements to lawmakers and remind them of the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Grants and scholarships make higher education possible for all students. The need-based Michigan Tuition Grant is critical for college affordability and important for our students.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">MICU\u00a0institutions are committed to ensuring that students complete their degrees with little to no debt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Independent colleges and universities make higher education more accessible to Michigan students and provide personalized support.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.micolleges.org\/photos?utm_source=MICU+Communications&amp;utm_campaign=3a359281f3-%2540MICU+January+12%252C+2018_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_fc59add3bc-3a359281f3-252961569&amp;ct=t(_MICU_Jan-12-2018_COPY_01)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View a photo album of this event<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.micolleges.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the Michigan Independent Colleges &amp; Universities<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday,\u00a0member institutions of the Michigan Independent Colleges &amp; Universities (MICU) gathered at the Michigan State Capitol for the 2021 Independent Colleges and Universities\u00a0Day\u00a0(Advocacy\u00a0Day). Hundreds &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"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":[6,4404],"tags":[4945,4946,154,4944,4947,4943,1952],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-2cL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479"}],"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\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8484,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions\/8484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}