{"id":49189,"date":"2014-07-03T07:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=49189"},"modified":"2014-07-03T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:14:53","slug":"dr-shirley-takes-reins-at-minot-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=49189","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Shirley Takes Reins At Minot State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shirleyaward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-44485\" alt=\"shirleyaward\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shirleyaward.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shirleyaward.jpg 200w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shirleyaward-121x175.jpg 121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>MINOT, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Former Valley City State University President Steven Shirley has taken the reins at Minot State University.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley began his tenure as the northern North Dakota school&#8217;s ninth president on Tuesday. He succeeds David Fuller, who retired at the end of June from the century-old school that has about 3,500 students.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley spent six years as president of Valley City State, after working at schools in South Dakota and Minnesota. He says he&#8217;s excited to be in a new community and has been preparing for his new role since the state Board of Higher Education chose him as Minot State&#8217;s new leader in February. Shirley beat out 36 other candidates for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley holds undergraduate, master&#8217;s and doctoral degrees from the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINOT, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Former Valley City State University President Steven Shirley has taken the reins at Minot State University. Shirley began his tenure as the northern North Dakota school&#8217;s ninth president on Tuesday. He succeeds David Fuller, who retired at the end of June from the century-old school that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49191,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49189\/revisions\/49191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}