{"id":2786,"date":"2020-03-27T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2020-03-31T10:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T14:55:01","slug":"presidents-post-165-video-message-from-dr-mercer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/president\/2020\/03\/27\/presidents-post-165-video-message-from-dr-mercer\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Post #165: Video Message from Dr. Mercer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 27, 2020, President Mercer shared a video message with the College.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We are Ramapo College,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We exhibit the tremendous human qualities of ingenuity and perseverance and those will be brought to bear in ways that will vanquish the foe that is the Coronavirus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to ask each of you to continue to keep faith with that effort, to do all that you can not only to support yourself and your immediate family members, but also those around you who may not have such supports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If we can do that, and if we can continue to focus on all the aspects of college life which still exist and which will enable us to celebrate your successes and rites of passage, then we will all look back on this with a measure of satisfaction, and I wish that for all of us in our daily lives.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Message from President Mercer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WF6O-J_kB_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 27, 2020, President Mercer shared a video message with the College. &#8220;We are Ramapo College,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We exhibit the tremendous human qualities of ingenuity and perseverance and those will be brought to bear in ways that will vanquish the foe that is the Coronavirus. 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