{"id":9033,"date":"2019-07-02T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9033"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:22:29","slug":"newspressnow-new-mwsu-president-visits-students-faculty-on-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/02\/newspressnow-new-mwsu-president-visits-students-faculty-on-first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: New MWSU president visits students, faculty on first day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><img class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/8\/ec\/8ec5fbc4-9c4a-11e9-b7d5-2f4766f38053\/5d1a81082982c.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800\" alt=\"Matt Wilson meets with Missouri Western students in a chemistry lab\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>By Daniel Cobb, July 1, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Western State University\u2019s new president, Matthew J. Wilson, toured various departments Monday morning in order to learn more about the students and faculty he\u2019ll be working with this year.<\/p>\n<p>On his first official day on the job, Wilson, who was selected to replace Dr. Robert Vartabedian in March, spent some of his time Monday morning chatting with students and department heads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cMy first day? Hopefully, I have the opportunity to further connect with students, faculty and alumni,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cI hope to set a tone of optimism, excitement and hope as we move forward taking the university to greater heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/new-mwsu-president-visits-students-faculty-on-first-day\/article_94f43504-9c15-11e9-ab46-9b035091e1fd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By Daniel Cobb, July 1, 2019 Missouri Western State University\u2019s new president, Matthew J. Wilson, toured various departments Monday morning in order to learn more about the students and faculty he\u2019ll be working with this year. On his first official day on the job, Wilson, who was selected to replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033"}],"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=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9046,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions\/9046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}