{"id":684,"date":"2015-03-26T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devmcc4.com.php53-14.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com\/mcc-publications\/award-for-service-to-the-community\/"},"modified":"2015-03-26T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:07:24","slug":"award-for-service-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/december-2010\/award-for-service-to-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Award for Service to the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College President Joann La Perla-Morales received a Contribution to the Community Award at the First Central Jersey Women in Business Dinner November 4. The program, sponsored by WCTC 1450\/Magic 98.3\/Greater Media, honored 11 successful central New Jersey women. Dr. La Perla-Morales is presented the award by Tony Odachowski of Greater Media. As president of the College, Dr. La Perla-Morales has initiated new academic programs, restructured and increased student services, and developed an honors program for high achieving students. In concert with Raritan Bay Medical Center, Dr. La Perla-Morales developed a new Associate in Science degree in Nursing.  During her tenure, enrollment has increased and the campus had added new buildings and facilities, including a LEED Certified classroom\/conference center building, Crabiel Hall, scheduled to open in January 2011. She also serves a leadership role in the community, with service on 14 boards or commissions, including professional associations, community nonprofit organizations, and the New Jersey Ethics Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College President Joann La Perla-Morales received a Contribution to the Community Award at the First Central Jersey Women in Business Dinner November 4. The program, sponsored by WCTC 1450\/Magic 98.3\/Greater Media, honored 11 successful central New Jersey women. Dr. La Perla-Morales is presented the award by Tony Odachowski of Greater Media. As president of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":688,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/684\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}