{"id":785298,"date":"2019-05-01T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=785298"},"modified":"2019-05-02T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T18:24:08","slug":"dr-juan-e-mejia-named-lone-finalist-for-tjc-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=785298","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Juan E. Mejia Named Lone Finalist for TJC President"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — The Tyler Junior College Board of Trustees has selected Dr. Juan E. Mejia as the lone finalist to be TJC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next President. Mejia currently serves as TJC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s President for Branch Locations & District Provost. The Board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision comes after an extensive national search and thorough interview process, according to a news release. TJC received 83 applications. A screening committee interviewed 11 semifinalists, eventually narrowing the field to four finalists. TJC Board President Mike Coker noted that Mejia was the first choice of the faculty, staff, students, and community members who participated in the selection process. As sole finalist, Mejia will be confirmed at a meeting on May 23 and will begin July 1 as the seventh President of Tyler Junior College. He’ll succeed the retiring Dr. Mike Metke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — The Tyler Junior College Board of Trustees has selected Dr. Juan E. Mejia as the lone finalist to be TJC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next President. Mejia currently serves as TJC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s President for Branch Locations & District Provost. The Board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision comes after an extensive national search and thorough interview process, according to a news release. TJC … Continue reading Dr. Juan E. Mejia Named Lone Finalist for TJC President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":785299,"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-785298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 12:37:15","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\/785298","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785302,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785298\/revisions\/785302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}