{"id":70676,"date":"2016-07-05T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70676"},"modified":"2016-07-05T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:56:33","slug":"welcoming-delta-states-new-vp-for-student-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/07\/welcoming-delta-states-new-vp-for-student-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Delta State&#8217;s new VP for Student Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"\">\n<div class=\"WordSection1\"><span class=\"\">Joining President LaForge is Dr. Vernell Bennett, Delta State University\u2019s new Vice President for Student Affairs.<\/span><br class=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><o:p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fpWF7RuejY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"\">\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">Dr. Bennett officially began her role this past week, but has been on campus for several weeks meeting with staff and officials. She will be responsible for providing leadership and administrative direction to a comprehensive Student Affairs Division.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Dr. Bennett comes to Delta State after previously serving in the same role at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky. Her extensive experience at KSU enabled her to foster collaborations between Student Affairs and Academic Affairs, faculty, staff, students, the administration and community. She holds a doctorate in administration from the University of Kentucky, received her master\u2019s from Eastern Michigan University, and her bachelor degree from Fisk University. Additionally, she has a background in teaching music courses, including voice instruction, elements of music, phonetics and diction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joining President LaForge is Dr. Vernell Bennett, Delta State University\u2019s new Vice President for Student Affairs. Dr. Bennett officially began her role this past week, but has been on campus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-facultystaff","category-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70677,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70676\/revisions\/70677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}