{"id":10182,"date":"2020-08-27T16:41:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T21:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreconstprod.wpengine.com\/news\/groundbreaking-for-residence-hall-is-first-step-toward-new-freshman-village\/"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:29:57","slug":"groundbreaking-for-residence-hall-is-first-step-toward-new-freshman-village","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/news\/groundbreaking-for-residence-hall-is-first-step-toward-new-freshman-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking for residence hall is first step toward new Freshman Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donors, alumni and friends of ACU kicked off the new school year Saturday by breaking ground on a new residence hall on the site of former McDonald Hall, set to be a home for freshmen in Fall 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Standing near the construction site,\u00a0April\u00a0(Bullock \u201989) Anthony of Dallas, Texas, board chair and one of the project\u2019s lead donors, said she could picture her second-floor McDonald room where she lived as a freshman in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in the residence life and in the dorms that our experiences at ACU begin, and it\u2019s in those places our life-long relationships are founded,\u201d Anthony said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s still to this day that in that very room, the roommate of my freshman year is part of my life, as are so many others [I met] throughout my ACU years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article as published by ACU Today, please <a href=\"https:\/\/acu.today\/2020\/08\/27\/groundbreaking-for-residence-hall-is-first-step-toward-new-freshman-village\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Image provided courtesy of ACU Today.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donors, alumni and friends of ACU kicked off the new school year Saturday by breaking ground on a new residence hall on the site of former McDonald Hall, set to be a home for freshmen in Fall 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11897,"template":"","news_tags":[87,97,95],"class_list":["post-10182","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_tags-core1937","news_tags-coreconstruction","news_tags-coretexas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreconstruction.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=10182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}