{"id":18154,"date":"2015-03-17T17:40:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T23:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=18154"},"modified":"2015-03-17T17:40:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T23:40:26","slug":"higher-education-leaders-to-share-priorities-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=18154","title":{"rendered":"Higher education leaders to share priorities, challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18186\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/presidents.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18186 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/presidents-555x148.jpg\" alt=\"presidents\" width=\"555\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/presidents-555x148.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/presidents-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/presidents-150x40.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/presidents.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Shockley-Zalabak, Michelle Johnson, Jill Tiefenthaler, Lance Bolton\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The leaders of El Paso County&#8217;s dominant colleges and universities will talk about critical issues facing higher education during a forum sponsored by the UCCS Center for the Study of Government and the Individual.<\/p>\n<p>UCCS Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak, Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson, superintendent, United States Air Force Academy, Jill Tiefenthaler, president, Colorado College, and Lance Bolton, president, Pikes Peak Community College, will speak at 11:30 a.m. April 2 at Colorado Springs Country Club, 333 Templeton Gap Road.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $30 and include lunch. To attend the event, contact Jane Muller, general professional, Center for the Study of Government and the Individual, <a href=\"mailto:jmuller@uccs.edu\">jmuller@uccs.edu<\/a> or 255-4093.<\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh year the leaders of the four colleges have provided a joint update and overview of the challenges. The event is often attended by community leaders and elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the leaders of the four institutions announced a new Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurism designed to keep the region&#8217;s best and brightest students in the region following graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Related Post<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"USAFA, CC, PPCC, UCCS create center for innovation\" href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=14964\">USAFA, CC, PPCC and UCCS to create center for innovation and entrepreneurism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The leaders of El Paso County&#8217;s dominant colleges and universities will talk about critical issues facing higher education during a forum sponsored by the UCCS Center for the Study of Government and the Individual. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=18154\" title=\"Higher education leaders to share priorities, challenges\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/presidents-555x148.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4IO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18154"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18188,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154\/revisions\/18188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}