{"id":2264,"date":"2019-01-08T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:24:51","slug":"dr-vartabedian-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2019\/01\/08\/dr-vartabedian-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Vartabedian Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2019\/01\/2018-flag-1-1200x1800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>In August, Dr. Robert A. Vartabedian, Missouri Western\u2019s president, announced his plans to retire on July 1, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vartabedian and his wife, Dr. Laurel Vartabedian, plan to spend more time with family, including their children and grandchildren in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBob and Laurel\u2019s contributions to Missouri Western and the St. Joseph area will be felt for many years to come,\u201d said Dave Liechti, chair of the Board of Governors. \u201cBob is a great leader and tireless worker with a vision and commitment to advance the University. Both he and Laurel have immersed themselves in the community and been great ambassadors for Missouri Western. The bar is set very high for whoever follows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On July 1, 2008, Dr. Vartabedian became Missouri Western\u2019s fourth president since the institution became a four-year college, and he is the longest-tenured current president among public universities in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the Board of Governors selected AGB Search from Washington, D.C. to serve as the search firm for Dr. Vartabedian\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, Dr. Robert A. Vartabedian, Missouri Western\u2019s president, announced his plans to retire on July 1, 2019. Dr. Vartabedian and his wife, Dr. Laurel Vartabedian, plan to spend more time with family, including their children and grandchildren in Texas. \u201cBob and Laurel\u2019s contributions to Missouri Western and the St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,39,19,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}