{"id":1208017,"date":"2023-03-07T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1208017"},"modified":"2023-03-08T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:59:52","slug":"ut-tyler-earns-silver-military-friendly-school-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1208017","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler earns Silver Military Friendly School designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/utt-175x67-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"67\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1201148\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The University of Texas at Tyler has earned the 2023-24 Silver Military Friendly School designation. According to a news release, that means UT Tyler is within the top 20% of participating schools in the Tier 2 Research Institutions Category. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an honor to be recognized in this way for our support of student veterans, active, reserve and National Guard personnel and their families,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Coby Dillard, UT Tyler director of military and veterans affairs, as quoted in a news release. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our designation is a great testament to all the tireless, student-led efforts to make UT Tyler a truly military-inclusive institution.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A celebration ceremony hosted by the UT Tyler Military and Veterans Success Center will be 10 a.m. Thursday, March 9, at the UT Tyler Alumni House, located on the UT Tyler campus. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Supporting about 650 military-affiliated students, the UT Tyler Military and Veterans Success Center provides a full spectrum of individualized, relationship-centered support and advocacy for its student population, according to the release. UTT officials say the Military Friendly Schools list is created each year based on extensive research using public data sources for more than 8,800 schools nationwide; input from student veterans; and responses to the proprietary, data-driven Military Friendly Schools survey from participating institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The University of Texas at Tyler has earned the 2023-24 Silver Military Friendly School designation. According to a news release, that means UT Tyler is within the top 20% of participating schools in the Tier 2 Research Institutions Category. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an honor to be recognized in this way for our support of student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1208017\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler earns Silver Military Friendly School designation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1208026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/utt-175x67-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler earns Silver Military Friendly School designation","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 16:08:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/utt-175x67-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler earns Silver Military Friendly School designation","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212244,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208017\/revisions\/1212244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}