{"id":12040,"date":"2017-02-02T19:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2017-02-12T19:41:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:41:31","slug":"new-wku-president-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/02\/02\/new-wku-president-named\/","title":{"rendered":"New WKU President Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12041\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/02\/02\/new-wku-president-named\/timothy-caboni\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Timothy-Caboni.jpg?fit=690%2C388&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"690,388\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Timothy Caboni\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Timothy-Caboni.jpg?fit=690%2C388&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Timothy-Caboni.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Timothy-Caboni.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Timothy-Caboni.jpg?w=690&amp;ssl=1 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nAlmost a year to the day that Western Kentucky University President Gary Ransdell told the Board of Regents he planned to retire in 2017, the same board approved hiring his successor.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Search Committee charged with naming WKU\u2019s 10th President completed it\u2019s work ahead of schedule. Dr. Gary Ransdell will remain at the helm through June 30th but after a year of searching, the person who will be handed the reigns has been identified as Dr. Timothy Caboni.<\/p>\n<p>Caboni, who received a Masters Degree from WKU in 1994, says he is honored to have been chosen for the job.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Caboni signed a four year contract on Friday. He will have five months before officially taking over the office of President on July 1, 2017.<br \/>\nSource:  WBKO <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a year to the day that Western Kentucky University President Gary Ransdell told the Board of Regents he planned to retire in 2017, the same board approved hiring his successor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-38c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 09:35:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12042,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions\/12042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}