{"id":93211,"date":"2016-01-27T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93211"},"modified":"2016-01-27T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:03:58","slug":"former-vcsu-pres-applying-for-und-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93211","title":{"rendered":"Former VCSU Pres. applying for UND presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<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>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Minot State University President Steven Shirley has applied for the presidency at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shirley is a former president at Valley City State University. He became MSU\u2019s 11th president in July 2014, succeeding the retired David Fuller.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now Shirley wants to succeed retired UND President Robert Kelley.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A presidential search committee last week narrowed the list of candidates from 41 to 15 but decided to continue accepting applications. University System spokeswoman Billie Jo Lorius says the committee will meet Thursday to decide if any applications submitted before the noon Wednesday cutoff will be considered. That would include Shirley\u2019s application.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In-person interviews with candidates are set next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Minot State University President Steven Shirley has applied for the presidency at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shirley is a former president at Valley City State University. He became MSU\u2019s 11th president in July 2014, succeeding the retired David Fuller. \u00a0 [&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-93211","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\/93211","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=93211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93214,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93211\/revisions\/93214"}],"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=93211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}