{"id":11237,"date":"2023-08-01T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2023-08-01T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:21:39","slug":"bill-grimwood-appointed-to-mwsu-board-of-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/01\/bill-grimwood-appointed-to-mwsu-board-of-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Grimwood appointed to MWSU Board of Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11238\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11238\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Bill-Grimwood-310x310.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Grimwood\" width=\"310\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Bill-Grimwood-66x66.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Bill-Grimwood-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Bill-Grimwood-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Bill-Grimwood-310x310.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Bill-Grimwood-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2023\/08\/Bill-Grimwood.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Grimwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aug. 1, 2023&#8211;Gov. Mike Parson today announced that Bill Grimwood, chief information officer for Hillyard Companies of St. Joseph, has been appointed to the Missouri Western State University Board of Governors. His term expires Oct. 29, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m a strong believer in public service,\u201d Grimwood said. \u201cI believe that my volunteer work in the community matters. I like to see our community, the Northwest Missouri region and the state of Missouri grow healthier, stronger, and more sustainable. I believe that a university is an anchor for each community where they are based. I want to be part of the decisions that help MWSU succeed and by extension, help St Joseph, Buchanan County, and the Northwest Missouri region thrive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grimwood has been with Hillyard for 24 years. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Kansas. He is in his ninth year of service on the Missouri Western State University Foundation Board and served as the board chairman for the last two years. Grimwood also served for 10 years on the Mosaic Life Care Foundation Board, including three years as board chairman, and currently serves on the Mosaic Life Care Quality Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gov. Parson\u2019s appointment is subject to confirmation by the Missouri Senate. Grimwood\u2019s appointment will bring the Board of Governors to a full seven voting members plus the non-voting student member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 1, 2023&#8211;Gov. Mike Parson today announced that Bill Grimwood, chief information officer for Hillyard Companies of St. Joseph, has been appointed to the Missouri Western State University Board of Governors. His term expires Oct. 29, 2024. \u201cI\u2019m a strong believer in public service,\u201d Grimwood said. \u201cI believe that my volunteer work in the community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11239,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions\/11239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}