{"id":1297184,"date":"2024-02-13T10:46:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1297184"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:51:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T21:51:02","slug":"kirk-calhoun-to-retire-as-ut-tyler-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1297184","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Calhoun to retire as UT Tyler president"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The University of Texas at Tyler President Kirk Calhoun announced on Tuesday he will retire May 31. According to our news partner KETK, Calhoun has been with UT Tyler 22 years as its president and president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. University officials say that the committee to help advise UT System Chancellor J.B. Milliken on a new president will be led by former Tyler mayor and Texas state senator Kevin Eltife, UT System chairman of the Board of Regents.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are many important initiatives at our Tyler campuses, and my colleagues and I will work to name a successor to President Calhoun who will build upon the work underway,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Eltife said.
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The university said in a release that collaboration and increased educational opportunity have been the benchmarks of Calhoun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenure including expansion of academic programs, partnering with community colleges and industry and the merger and creation of the UT Health East Texas hospital system.<\/p>\n

Dr. Calhoun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long commitment to the UT Health Tyler, UT Tyler and the region will be felt for many years to come. Improving health and the human condition and educating and training generations of students has been his life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work. We applaud his many impactful contributions,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Milliken said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The University of Texas at Tyler President Kirk Calhoun announced on Tuesday he will retire May 31. According to our news partner KETK, Calhoun has been with UT Tyler 22 years as its president and president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. University officials say that the committee to … Continue reading Kirk Calhoun to retire as UT Tyler president<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1297190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/KirkCalhoun_headshot_backgorund-181x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kirk Calhoun to retire as UT Tyler president","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 13:42:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/02\/KirkCalhoun_headshot_backgorund-181x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Kirk Calhoun to retire as UT Tyler president","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297189,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297184\/revisions\/1297189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}