{"id":106763,"date":"2020-02-13T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=106763"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:09:47","slug":"a-valentine-for-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-valentine-for-ucf\/","title":{"rendered":"A Valentine for 166su"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this place.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few weeks, we&#8217;ve learned of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-researcher-finds-new-signal-that-your-breast-cancer-is-growing\/\">a discovery from 166su professor Annette Khaled<\/a> that may help detect cancer cells before they can spread. The Princeton Review named us a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-continues-as-a-best-value-college-for-2020\/\">Best Value College<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-online-programs-rank-among-top-20-in-nation-again\/\">166su Online ranked among the top 20<\/a> in the nation&#8230;again.<\/p>\n<p>Students came together in fellowship for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/166su\/videos\/2782390261994680\">annual Gather luncheon<\/a>, and we celebrate the alumni who founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/start-of-ucfs-black-student-union\/\">Black Student Union 50 years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare that all of this could happen at one time at one place. But at 166su, we just call it spring.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why this Valentine&#8217;s Day, I&#8217;m sending a love letter to 166su. To the place, the people and the possibilities. To an institution that has so positively impacted my life, and the lives of thousands of others.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I love this place is because of you, the people of 166su. Through good times and bad, you remain committed to our students and community.Change is inevitable, but the 166su we love, and the values we hold dear, will always live on.<\/p>\n<p>With gratitude,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thad Seymour Jr., Ph.D.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Interim President<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim President Thad Seymour Jr. shares some of the reasons he loves 166su.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17563],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-106763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","tag-thad-seymour-jr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Valentine for 166su<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interim President Thad Seymour Jr. shares some of the reasons he loves 166su.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-valentine-for-ucf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Valentine for 166su\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Interim President Thad Seymour Jr. shares some of the reasons he loves 166su.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/a-valentine-for-ucf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UCF News | 166su Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/166su\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-13T16:09:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicole Dudenhoefer &#039;17\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@166su\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@166su\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nicole Dudenhoefer &#039;17\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/a-valentine-for-ucf\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/a-valentine-for-ucf\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nicole Dudenhoefer '17\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/9d80c5f96623baaf4ec084540ceb2407\"},\"headline\":\"A Valentine for 166su\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-13T16:09:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/a-valentine-for-ucf\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":194,\"keywords\":[\"Thad Seymour Jr.\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Colleges &amp; 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