{"id":1445682,"date":"2025-09-29T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1445682"},"modified":"2025-09-30T03:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:15:55","slug":"ut-tyler-announces-new-cowan-center-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1445682","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler announces new Cowan Center executive director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/UT-Tyler-Poynter-scaled-e1759164550217-186x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1445684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/UT-Tyler-Poynter-scaled-e1759164550217-186x200.jpg 186w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/UT-Tyler-Poynter-scaled-e1759164550217-326x350.jpg 326w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/UT-Tyler-Poynter-scaled-e1759164550217-768x824.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/UT-Tyler-Poynter-scaled-e1759164550217.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/>TYLER &#8211; In a statement, the University of Texas at Tyler announced a new executive director of the Cowan Center. Ryan Poynter was given the nod late Monday morning, and is a graduate from the University of the Cumberlands. Poynter also has experience in both property management and capital budgeting. The R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center opened in 1997 according to the university. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; In a statement, the University of Texas at Tyler announced a new executive director of the Cowan Center. Ryan Poynter was given the nod late Monday morning, and is a graduate from the University of the Cumberlands. Poynter also has experience in both property management and capital budgeting. The R. Don Cowan Fine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1445682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler announces new Cowan Center executive director<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1445684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/09\/UT-Tyler-Poynter-scaled-e1759164550217-186x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 09:15:03","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\/2025\/09\/UT-Tyler-Poynter-scaled-e1759164550217-186x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445682","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\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445746,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445682\/revisions\/1445746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}