{"id":9040,"date":"2019-07-02T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2019-07-03T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:46:41","slug":"kq2-missouri-western-welcomes-new-president-matthew-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/02\/kq2-missouri-western-welcomes-new-president-matthew-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"KQ2: Missouri Western welcomes new president, Matthew Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/media.heartlandtv.com\/images\/PRESIDENT+WILSON+2.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Wilson, Missouri Western president\" width=\"1152\" height=\"648\" \/><br \/>\n(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Missouri Western State University welcomed their new president, Matthew Wilson, on Monday.\u00a0President Wilson succeeds Dr. Robert Vartabedian, who retired after 11 years as Western&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>The school introduced Wilson on his first day of the job to several faculty and staff in the Biology department, where he heard first-hand accounts of the research projects current students are working on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I come in, I&#8217;m really looking forward to engaging with the students, ensuring that they know that we are here for their success,&#8221; Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/content\/news\/Missouri-Western-welcomes-new-president-Matthew-Wilson-512069761.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Missouri Western State University welcomed their new president, Matthew Wilson, on Monday.\u00a0President Wilson succeeds Dr. Robert Vartabedian, who retired after 11 years as Western&#8217;s president. The school introduced Wilson on his first day of the job to several faculty and staff in the Biology department, where he heard first-hand accounts of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040"}],"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=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9050,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions\/9050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}