{"id":612406,"date":"2017-05-02T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612406"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:54:05","slug":"two-endowed-teaching-chairs-named-at-tjc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612406","title":{"rendered":"Two Endowed Teaching Chairs Named at TJC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Ryan-Button.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Ryan-Button-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-612410\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; Two Tyler Junior College professors are being singled out as endowed teaching chairs for 2017. This year&#8217;s recipients are  sociology professor Ryan Button who receives the &#8220;The Dorothy Fay and Jack White Endowed Chair for Teaching Excellence.&#8221; And speech professor Alfonso Ippolito, who receives &#8220;The Thomas H. Shelby Jr. Endowed Chair for Teaching Excellence.&#8221; The winners were surprised during their classes Tuesday with a fanfare of applause and balloons, followed by presentations of certificates and checks from TJC officials. Endowed teaching chair recipients receive $2,000 for each of two years. This includes a $1,500 cash stipend and $500 for professional development for each year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Alfonso-Ippolito.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/05\/Alfonso-Ippolito-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-612411\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEndowed teaching chair recipients receive $2,000 for each of two years ($4,000total), which includes a $1,500 cash stipend and $500 for professional development for each year. The professional development portion may be applied toward a personal professional development plan, including travel, books, conferences and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Ten full-time TJC professors were nominated by their peers to apply for the award. Of the 10 nominees, eight professors chose to undergo the intense application process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; Two Tyler Junior College professors are being singled out as endowed teaching chairs for 2017. This year&#8217;s recipients are sociology professor Ryan Button who receives the &#8220;The Dorothy Fay and Jack White Endowed Chair for Teaching Excellence.&#8221; And speech professor Alfonso Ippolito, who receives &#8220;The Thomas H. Shelby Jr. Endowed Chair for Teaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=612406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Endowed Teaching Chairs Named at TJC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":612410,"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-612406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 01:02:05","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\/612406","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=612406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612414,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612406\/revisions\/612414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}