{"id":115,"date":"2007-10-12T08:06:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/12\/proud-of-my-baylor-education\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T08:06:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:06:05","slug":"proud-of-my-baylor-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/proud-of-my-baylor-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud of my Baylor education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/diplomaframe.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor diploma frame\" align=\"right\" width=\"250\" \/>After living in Waco for a couple of years after I graduated, I moved to Philadelphia, where I worked for four years before moving back to Texas. You&#8217;d better believe I had my office decked out in green and gold; if my coworkers up north didn&#8217;t know much about Baylor before I worked there, they sure did by the time I left!<\/p>\n<p>My Baylor degree is one of the things in life I&#8217;m most proud of, for all that it represents. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=47265\">recent alumni survey conducted on behalf of the University<\/a> found that the vast majority of grads feel the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Above and beyond the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/02\/youre-baylor-proud-too\/\">80% who are &#8220;very proud&#8221; of their alma mater<\/a>, 87% said a Baylor education is &#8220;better than most&#8221; or &#8220;among the best&#8221; compared to all other colleges and universities. Three-quarters of alumni agreed that Baylor is &#8220;moving forward,&#8221; and when asked if the quality of education at Baylor is changing, the most popular response by far was that it is getting better.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news, whether you&#8217;re a past, current or future student.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After living in Waco for a couple of years after I graduated, I moved to Philadelphia, where I worked for four years before moving back to Texas. You&#8217;d better believe I had my office decked out in green and gold; if my coworkers up north didn&#8217;t know much about Baylor before I worked there, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}