{"id":188529,"date":"2015-01-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=188529"},"modified":"2015-01-02T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:00:00","slug":"crees-gets-new-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/crees-gets-new-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"CREES gets a new dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The position of dean for the Northern Marianas College\u2019s Cooperative Research Extension and Educational Services has been filled, according to college president Dr. Sharon Hart at the Board of Regents meeting last week. The new dean will report to the college in the next few months, according to her.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, CREES\u2019 acting dean is Patricia Coleman, after long-time dean Ross Manglona was sent packing in July this year when he was put on administrative leave and reportedly escorted off campus by security guards. His contract expired in August.<\/p>\n<p>Hart described CREES\u2019 new dean as one with \u201cextensive experience in research extension.\u201d To her understanding, she said, the new dean is currently working at a university in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely fortunate, and excited,\u201d she told the Board of Regents.<\/p>\n<p>CREES works with stakeholders in the community in such areas as agriculture, aquaculture, and food processing, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The position of dean for the Northern Marianas College\u2019s Cooperative Research Extension and Educational Services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[495,42,938],"class_list":["post-188529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-food","tag-sharon-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}