{"id":6586,"date":"2012-04-06T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2012-04-06T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T14:49:09","slug":"bacon-to-be-feted-at-retirement-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Bacon to be feted at retirement celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6588\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Peg-Bacon.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6588\" title=\"Peg-Bacon\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Peg-Bacon-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peg Bacon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A retirement celebration for Margaret \u201cPeg\u201d Bacon, provost, is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. April 26 at the Kraemer Family Library.<\/p>\n<p>Bacon plans to retire July 1 after a 34 year UCCS career. She began as an assistant professor of education and later served as dean of the College of Education and chair of the Teaching, Special Education and Curriculum Department, now the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She was named interim vice chancellor for academic affairs in 2006 and served in that capacity until 2008 when responsibility was added and the position changed to provost.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the UCCS faculty, she served as a middle and high school teacher and literacy researcher in Michigan and Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation of attendance at the event is requested by April 20. Please call 255-3613 or send email to <a href=\"mailto:chancellor@uccs.edu\">chancellor@uccs.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To see an earlier article about Bacon\u2019s retirement and the search for a replacement, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=5897\">http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=5897<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A retirement celebration for Margaret \u201cPeg\u201d Bacon, provost, is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. April 26 at the Kraemer Family Library. Bacon plans to retire July 1 after a 34 year UCCS career. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=6586\" title=\"Bacon to be feted at retirement celebration\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20400,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Peg-Bacon-200x300.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-1Ie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","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=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6589,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}