{"id":133571,"date":"2026-10-30T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=133571"},"modified":"2026-10-30T08:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:05:34","slug":"first-gen-owu-celebration-week-our-time-to-shine-%f0%9f%aa%a9%e2%9c%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/first-gen-owu-celebration-week-our-time-to-shine-%f0%9f%aa%a9%e2%9c%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Gen OWU Celebration Week: Our Time to Shine! \ud83e\udea9\u2728"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us Nov. 2-6 for <strong>First-Gen OWU Celebration Week!<\/strong> This year&#8217;s theme is <em>Our Time to Shine<\/em>, and we&#8217;re celebrating our first-gen community with a full week of events, giveaways, treats, and more! Offices and departments across campus are joining in the celebration, so be sure to check out the full schedule at\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/palmercenterowu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/palmercenterowu\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1793414977612000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2_PX1qJbTv8W_y9dyBKSDa\"><strong>@palmercenterowu<\/strong><\/a> on Instagram. Follow for event information and highlights throughout the week!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kick off the celebration on Monday, Nov. 2, with a Hot Drink Bar outside HWCC 208 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.!<\/strong> \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\udda4<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsor: The Palmer Center for First-Generation Student Success<br \/>\nContact: Thea Smekens at <a href=\"mailto:tjsmekens@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tjsmekens@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us Nov. 2-6 for First-Gen OWU Celebration Week! This year&#8217;s theme is Our Time to Shine, and we&#8217;re celebrating our first-gen community with a full week of events, giveaways, treats, and more! Offices and departments across campus are joining in the celebration, so be sure to check out the full schedule at\u00a0 @palmercenterowu on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133602,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133571\/revisions\/133602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}