{"id":138423,"date":"2011-11-03T02:27:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T07:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138423"},"modified":"2011-11-04T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T07:27:13","slug":"u-t-tyler-administration-building-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138423","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler Administration Building Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=138424\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-138424\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/11\/James-H-Stewart-Jr2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"James H Stewart Jr2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-138424\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8211;The University of Texas at Tyler names the Administration Building in honor of founding president Dr. James H. Stewart, Jr.  As part of the university\u2019s 40th anniversary celebration events, an unveiling ceremony was held Thursday at the University Center theater to recognize Stewart and his contributions to the institution that is now UT Tyler. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recognition of Dr. Stewart\u2019s remarkable achievements as the first president, the UT System Board of Regents approved my recommendation for this honorific naming. This building was constructed during Dr. Stewart\u2019s era, and it is fitting that it be named for him,\u201d said school President Dr. Rodney Mabry. Serving 1972 to 1981, Stewart is the only president to have led all three institutions \u2013 Tyler State College, Texas Eastern University and The University of Texas at Tyler. He was instrumental in developing the only public degree-granting institution of higher education in the 14-county East Texas Planning Region and responsible for the plans to move the university to its present-day location in 1976. <\/p>\n<p>Stewart established a higher education program based on academic excellence, developing a fully-accredited institution. Under his leadership, enrollment increased from 176 in spring 1973 to more than 1,900 in spring 1981. Stewart also led the university through four major construction contracts totaling more than $21 million. Stewart was named President Emeritus of UT Tyler in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211;The University of Texas at Tyler names the Administration Building in honor of founding president Dr. James H. Stewart, Jr. As part of the university\u2019s 40th anniversary celebration events, an unveiling ceremony was held Thursday at the University Center theater to recognize Stewart and his contributions to the institution that is now UT Tyler. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=138423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler Administration Building Named<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 08:12:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138423","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138423"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138810,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138423\/revisions\/138810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}