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What is Merit?<\/strong> Why is the college using Merit?<\/strong> Who really cares?<\/strong> How does Merit work?<\/strong> <\/p>\n Can I opt out if I don’t want to use Merit?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, you can choose to opt out of Merit. You will see an \u201cOpt Out\u201d link in the first email Merit sends to you. If you have already created a profile, you also have the ability to opt out at any time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PLEASE NOTE:<\/strong> All information including in Merit announcements is considered \u201cDirectory Information.\u201d The college takes seriously its commitment to not release information regarding students who have requested a hold on their FERPA-designated information. We run all student announcements through the college Registrar\u2019s Office prior to sending them out to students and the media.<\/p>\n For more information, contact Eric Bryant in the Office of Communications and Marketing, e.bryant@hvcc.edu or 518-629-8072.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:08:22 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is Merit? Merit is a platform Hudson Valley Community College uses to publicize student accomplishments, like making the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMerit is a platform Hudson Valley Community College uses to publicize student accomplishments, like making the Dean\u2019s List, studying abroad, or being named to lead a club or student organization. This platform allows us to organize all of your recognized college achievements online where you can claim them. You can share these positive stories with family and friends in social networks like Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n
\nWe want you to get the recognition you deserve for your hard work, academic success, and scholarly activities. Merit is the best way to showcase these accomplishments and, in some cases, we send a copy of your story to your hometown newspapers.<\/p>\n
\nEveryone really \u2013 family, friends, and particularly prospective employers. Did you know that\u00a075 percent of company recruiters are required to do online research on job candidates and 70 percent have rejected\u00a0applicants\u00a0because of information they found online. Merit is a great way to showcase all that you’ve achieved at college.<\/p>\n
\nIt creates a visual, institution-verified, web page that showcases everything you\u2019ve achieved from the time you enroll through graduation and all the great accomplishments in between.\u00a0Your first \u201cachievement\u201d is usually being named as part of the incoming class of matriculated students. Merit helps you create a powerful professional profile and positive online identity. The best part, it doesn\u2019t require you to do any work, we do it for you.<\/p>\n