{"id":2,"date":"2024-04-01T19:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:48:33","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Means to Be True Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MTSU is a community committed to&nbsp;<strong>learning, growth, and service<\/strong>. We hold these values dear, and there\u2019s a simple phrase that conveys them:&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\u201cI am True Blue.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong>New students at convocation take the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/pledge\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"12\">True Blue Pledge<\/a><\/strong>. It underscores our core values of&nbsp;<strong>honesty and integrity<\/strong>;&nbsp;<strong>respect for diversity<\/strong>;&nbsp;<strong>engagement in the community<\/strong>; and&nbsp;<strong>committing to reason, not violence<\/strong>. These words express not only the ideals the University wishes to share with its students but also our devotion to student success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MTSU True Blue Pledge | 2025\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iYKpllWWX0o?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><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTSU is a community committed to&nbsp;learning, growth, and service. We hold these values dear, and there\u2019s a simple phrase that conveys them:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cI am True Blue.\u201d&nbsp;New students at convocation take the&nbsp;True Blue Pledge. It underscores our core values of&nbsp;honesty and integrity;&nbsp;respect for diversity;&nbsp;engagement in the community; and&nbsp;committing to reason, not violence. These words express not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/trueblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}