{"id":780377,"date":"2019-04-09T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=780377"},"modified":"2019-04-10T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T01:59:10","slug":"tjc-a-step-closer-to-getting-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=780377","title":{"rendered":"TJC a Step Closer to Getting a New President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/tjc-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/02\/tjc-sign-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-766534\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Tyler man is one of the four finalists to become the next president of Tyler Junior College. School trustees narrowed the list during a Tuesday meeting. The four finalists are:<br \/>\n*Dr. Juan E. Mejia, President for Branch Locations and District Provost at Tyler Junior College<br \/>\n*Dr. Robert J. Exley, President of Snead State Community College in Boaz, Alabama<br \/>\n*Dr. Elizabeth U. Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas<br \/>\n *Dr. Deana Sheppard, Vice President of instruction at Lone Star College &#8211; CyFair in Cypress, Texas<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A total of 83 men and women applied for the position, and after a thorough review of each applicant by a Board-appointed screening committee, the pool was narrowed to several semi-finalists, who were interviewed. During the week of April 22, TJC will host the finalists. Each candidate will spend the day participating in a variety of visits, interviews, and forums attended by the TJC Board, community members, faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the schedule looks like this, the TJC Board will meet on May 1 in a regularly scheduled board meeting to announce the sole finalist. A 21-day waiting period will then begin. On May 23, the TJC Board will announce the seventh president of Tyler Junior College, who will take office on July 1. <\/p>\n<p>The search for TJC&#8217;s next president began in January after TJC&#8217;s Chancellor and CEO Dr. Mike Metke announced he would retire this summer. Metke is in his 12th year at the helm of the College and is only the sixth President\/Chancellor to lead TJC in its 92 plus year history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Tyler man is one of the four finalists to become the next president of Tyler Junior College. School trustees narrowed the list during a Tuesday meeting. The four finalists are: *Dr. Juan E. Mejia, President for Branch Locations and District Provost at Tyler Junior College *Dr. Robert J. Exley, President of Snead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=780377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TJC a Step Closer to Getting a New President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":766534,"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-780377","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 17:21:29","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\/780377","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=780377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780380,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780377\/revisions\/780380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/766534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}