{"id":966,"date":"2016-04-20T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/?p=966"},"modified":"2016-08-25T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:40:09","slug":"president-elect-hensruds-remarks-to-mnscu-board-of-trustees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/20\/president-elect-hensruds-remarks-to-mnscu-board-of-trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"President-Elect Hensrud\u2019s Remarks to MnSCU Board of Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;Chair Vekich, trustees, Chancellor Rosenstone, I am very pleased to be here. I want to thank you, members of board of trustees, I am very humbled and honored by your support. I am grateful for Chancellor Rosenstone&rsquo;s recommendation, and I will do my best to provide the leadership that these two institutions expect and deserve as we work together to create opportunities our students, now and in years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I want to acknowledge my husband, Neil, who for 27 years has been a strong advocate and partner, and our children, Christina and Joshua, who made our job as parents a true pleasure. Thanks for being so terrific and for your belief in me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As I have learned about Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College over the past several months, I have been very impressed with the faculty of both institutions. It&rsquo;s clear that your passion and commitment to your students is very high. I look forward to working with you to ensure that our students have an exceptional learning experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My commitment to student success comes directly from my early experience as a first-generation college student. I understand the challenges that our students face as they consider whether or not they belong at a particular college or university. I also understand first-hand the transformative role that higher education can play in the life of a student and a community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I look forward with anticipation to moving into the Bemidji community to begin this very exciting journey. Thank you.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Chair Vekich, trustees, Chancellor Rosenstone, I am very pleased to be here. I want to thank you, members of board of trustees, I am very humbled and honored by your support. I am grateful for Chancellor Rosenstone&rsquo;s recommendation, and I will do my best to provide the leadership that these two institutions expect and deserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ntcmn.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}