{"id":75391,"date":"2017-06-06T06:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=75391"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T11:10:25","slug":"loper-honored-employee-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2017\/06\/loper-honored-employee-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Loper honored as Employee of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Rhonda Loper, articulation specialist,\u00a0as the May\u00a02017 Employee of the Month.<\/p>\n<p>Loper began working at Delta State in October of 2012 as a research and information specialist in the Office of Institutional Research &amp; Planning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My journey at DSU began in the fall of 2009 when I began pursuing my undergraduate degree,&#8221; said Loper. &#8220;This October, I will celebrate five\u00a0years of employment here. During my time of employment, I have been privileged to work with some of the greatest people I know. I am honored that my small contributions were deemed worthy of this honor. Working together for a better DSU!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her free time, Loper enjoys spending time with her family, especially with her little grandson, Milo Alexander Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Each Employee of the Month winner receives a plaque, monetary award, an engraved insulated coffee mug, a free parking decal courtesy of the campus police department, a box of treats from The Sweetery, a parking spot of their choice, marquee announcement and website recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Delta State\u2019s Staff Council serves as a liaison between the administration and the staff to provide a formal process for staff to discuss issues involving university policies and procedures and to forward ideas, recommendations and opinions to the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta State University Staff Council recently honored Rhonda Loper, articulation specialist,\u00a0as the May\u00a02017 Employee of the Month. Loper began working at Delta State in October of 2012 as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":75392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-75391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-facultystaff","tag-employee-of-the-month"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75393,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75391\/revisions\/75393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}