{"id":1167,"date":"2026-07-15T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:37:44","slug":"update-and-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/2026\/07\/15\/update-and-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Update and Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">July 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Governor Grimwood has provided the following update and timeline for the presidential search:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee has already, and continues to\u00a0receive\u00a0many applications from highly-qualified candidates across the nation.\u00a0The search committee will meet on\u00a0<strong>Thursday, July 16<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0to review applications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After completing its review, the committee expects to select approximately\u00a0<strong>10 candidates<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for virtual interviews via Zoom in late July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the Zoom interviews, a group of finalists will be identified and invited to participate in on-campus interviews, which will be planned for August.\u00a0\u00a0The campus community, staff, faculty\u00a0and students,\u00a0will have opportunities to\u00a0attend an on- campus session as part of the interview process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The anticipated start date for the new president remains on track for\u00a0<strong>early fall<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2026 Governor Grimwood has provided the following update and timeline for the presidential search: The committee has already, and continues to\u00a0receive\u00a0many applications from highly-qualified candidates across the nation.\u00a0The search committee will meet on\u00a0Thursday, July 16,\u00a0to review applications. After completing its review, the committee expects to select approximately\u00a010 candidates\u00a0for virtual interviews via Zoom in late July. Following the Zoom interviews, a group of finalists will be identified and invited to participate in on-campus interviews, which will be planned for August.\u00a0\u00a0The campus community, staff, faculty\u00a0and students,\u00a0will have opportunities to\u00a0attend an on- campus session as part of the interview process. The anticipated start date for the new president remains on track for\u00a0early fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/presidential-search\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}