{"id":140834,"date":"2018-08-23T08:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T12:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=140834"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:04:27","slug":"celebrating-class-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/08\/celebrating-class-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting the Class of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Susan Herbst speaks at a press conference to announce details of the UConn Class of 2022 held at the Connecticut Hall of Fame at the state capitol on Aug. 22. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"NewClass180822a094\"<\/a>
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President Herbst at the press conference at the state capitol. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"NewClass180822a064\"<\/a>
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Governor Dannel Malloy at the announcement of about UConn's Class of 2022. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"NewClass180822a054\"<\/a>
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Olivia Lemieux '22 (CAHNR) shared her reasons for choosing UConn. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"NewClass180822a035\"<\/a>
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Annie Foley '22 (CAHNR) of Orange, talks about her decision to attend Connecticut's flagship university. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"NewClass180822a040\"<\/a>
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Samuel Degnan-Morgenstern '22 (CLAS) of Wallingford speaks about his decision to enroll at UConn. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"NewClass180822a036\"<\/a>
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Brian Pettway '22 (ENG) of New Haven shares his reasons for choosing UConn. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"NewClass180822a157\"<\/a>
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Pictured (L-R) President Susan Herbst, Governor Dannel Malloy, Samuel Degnan-Morgenstern '22 (CLAS), Brian Pettway '22 (ENG), Olivia Lemieux '22 (CAHNR), Annie Foley '22 (CAHNR), Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, State Senator Cathy Osten, State Senator Bob Duff, and State Rep. Vincent Candelora. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy joined UConn President Susan Herbst, legislators and guests Wednesday as the University announced the demographics and accomplishments of the new Class of 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thousands of students are returning to UConn this week, including about 12,300 moving into Storrs residence halls and about 420 in housing near UConn Stamford. Freshmen start moving in to residence halls at 7 a.m. Friday, followed by upperclassmen and transfer students over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Overall, about 23,000 undergraduate students will start classes on Monday, Aug. 27 at Storrs and the regional campuses. Many thousands of additional students are also enrolled at other locations in UConn\u2019s schools of law, medicine and dental medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI knew right away that UConn was the right place for me,\u201d said Annie Foley, an incoming Honors Program freshman from Orange, Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":140854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,92,174,2225,90,2234,2233],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1932],"class_list":["post-140834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-avery-point","category-uconn-hartford","category-uconn-stamford","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-waterbury","category-university-life","category-university-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:23:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140834"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140901,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140834\/revisions\/140901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/140854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140834"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=140834"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=140834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}