{"id":2756,"date":"2018-05-29T14:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2018-05-29T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T18:02:32","slug":"mansfield-receives-military-friendly-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"Mansfield Receives Military Friendly Designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MANSFIELD, PA\u2014<\/strong> Mansfield University has been designated a Military Friendly School for 2018-19 by Victory Media.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?attachment_id=2757\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Military-Friendly-18-19.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Military Friendly 18-19\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Military-Friendly-18-19.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2757\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Military-Friendly-18-19.jpg?resize=200%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Military-Friendly-18-19.jpg?w=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/munews.mansfield.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Military-Friendly-18-19.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Institutions earning the Military Friendly\u00ae School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from Victory Media\u2019s proprietary survey. Also, for the first time, student survey data was taken into consideration for the designation.<\/p>\n<p>Ratings methodology, criteria, and weightings were determined by Victory Media with input from the Military Friendly\u00ae Advisory Council of independent leaders in the higher education and military recruitment community.<\/p>\n<p>Final ratings were determined by combining the institution\u2019s survey scores with the assessment of the institution\u2019s ability to meet thresholds for student retention, graduation, job placement, loan repayment, persistence and loan default rates for all students and, specifically, for student veterans.<\/p>\n<p>For information on veterans services and benefits at MU, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/mansfield.edu\/military-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mansfield.edu\/military-veterans\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2018-19 Military Friendly\u00ae Schools list will be published in the May issue of G.I. Jobs magazine and can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryfriendly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">militaryfriendly.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANSFIELD, PA\u2014 Mansfield University has been designated a Military Friendly School for 2018-19 by Victory Media. Institutions earning the Military &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?p=2756\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mansfield Receives Military Friendly Designation<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,758],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-services-and-benefits-military-friendly"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V0yH-Is","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3004,"url":"https:\/\/munews.mansfield.edu\/?p=3004","url_meta":{"origin":2756,"position":0},"title":"Mansfield Receives Military Friendly Designation for Tenth Consecutive Year","author":"John Maslar","date":"February 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"MANSFIELD,\u00a0PA - Mansfield University has once again been designated a Military Friendly School for 2019 by Victory\u00a0Media. 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