{"id":96747,"date":"2016-03-11T14:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=96747"},"modified":"2016-03-13T18:05:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:05:57","slug":"shirley-among-3-in-running-und-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=96747","title":{"rendered":"Shirley among 3 in running for UND president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37641\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shirleysteve.jpg\" alt=\"Shirleysteve\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shirleysteve.jpg 200w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Shirleysteve-140x175.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; <strong>Minot State University President Steven Shirley i<\/strong>s among three candidates still in the running to be the next president of the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>A committee searching for the successor to retired President Robert Kelley has narrowed the list of candidates from six to three finalists after campus visits.<\/p>\n<p>The other two remaining candidates are former U.S. congressman Mark Kennedy, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; and Nagi Naganathan, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>The State Board of Higher Education will interview the three finalists Tuesday and decide on who gets the job.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley retired in January. Former North Dakota Gov. and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer is serving as UND&#8217;s interim president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Minot State University President Steven Shirley is among three candidates still in the running to be the next president of the University of North Dakota. A committee searching for the successor to retired President Robert Kelley has narrowed the list of candidates from six to [&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-96747","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\/96747","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=96747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96794,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96747\/revisions\/96794"}],"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=96747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}