{"id":9784,"date":"2020-08-03T12:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9784"},"modified":"2020-08-11T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T17:37:27","slug":"kq2-mwsu-northwest-administrators-meet-with-governor-to-talk-fall-semester-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/03\/kq2-mwsu-northwest-administrators-meet-with-governor-to-talk-fall-semester-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"KQ2: MWSU, Northwest administrators meet with governor to talk fall semester plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(MARYVILLE, Mo.) &#8212; Missouri Governor Mike Parson met with leaders of both Missouri Western State University and Northwest Missouri State University on Monday to discuss their fall semester re-opening plans.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of the governor&#8217;s statewide tour to look at what safety measures are being put into place in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of smart people out there that can deal with a lot of situations,&#8221; Parson said during a media availability following his private meeting with university leaders. &#8220;I think the education community above all is doing exactly what they need to be doing. They&#8217;re preparing, they&#8217;re trying to give the students, their parents, the confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For new MWSU interim president Elizabeth Kennedy, it was her first day on the job since taking over for former president Matt Wilson, who took a job in Japan. Kennedy is aware of the challenge she is facing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kq2.com\/content\/news\/MWSU-Northwest-administrators-meet-with-governor-to-talk-fall-semester-572000491.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more at KQ2.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MARYVILLE, Mo.) &#8212; Missouri Governor Mike Parson met with leaders of both Missouri Western State University and Northwest Missouri State University on Monday to discuss their fall semester re-opening plans. It was part of the governor&#8217;s statewide tour to look at what safety measures are being put into place in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,970,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784"}],"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=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9785,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions\/9785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}