{"id":152664,"date":"2018-09-06T07:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T12:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=152664"},"modified":"2018-09-06T07:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T12:23:50","slug":"vcsu-receives-naia-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=152664","title":{"rendered":"VCSU receives NAIA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VALLEY CITY, N.D. (VCSUVikings.com)- Valley City State University has been named an NAIA Champions of Character Five-Star Institution for the 2017-18 academic year, the NAIA national office has announced. It is the 16th straight year that the VCSU athletic department has received the honor.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The NAIA Champions of Character program provides training for student-athletes and professional development for coaches and staff. It places an emphasis on providing character-driven athletics programs. The five core values of integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship and servant leadership are put into play and accounted for as part of the Champions of Character program at NAIA schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">VCSU earned the honor at the \u201csilver\u201d level for the second straight year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALLEY CITY, N.D. (VCSUVikings.com)- Valley City State University has been named an NAIA Champions of Character Five-Star Institution for the 2017-18 academic year, the NAIA national office has announced. It is the 16th straight year that the VCSU athletic department has received the honor. The NAIA Champions of Character program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152665,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152664\/revisions\/152665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}