{"id":12451,"date":"2018-08-15T09:15:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hets.org\/?p=12451"},"modified":"2018-08-15T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:15:20","slug":"dr-ricardo-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/dr-ricardo-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ricardo Fern\u00e1ndez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former President, Lehman College<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9254\" src=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ricardo-Fernandez-Lehman-College-Jan-2015-133x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"140\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p>Lehman College is one of the HETS Consortium\u2019s founding members (1993), led by Dr. Ricardo Fern\u00e1ndez, who served as President of the institution for 26 years. Dr. Fern\u00e1ndez made extraordinary contributions to the HETS Consortium as Chairman (2001-2004), and Vice Chairman (1998 to 2000). He was also a very active member of the Board and showed his genuine interest in the progress of the organization throughout his 24 years of involvement in the organization. On HETS 10<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary in 2003, Dr. Fern\u00e1ndez was recognized as Board Member of the Year for his commitment to the Consortium. Under his leadership, Lehman College sponsored several HETS meetings and events throughout the organization\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p>\u201cEvery ending is a new beginning. As we look forward to another commencement, I am preparing to end my tenure as the President of Lehman College. This was not an easy decision; nor was it one that I made lightly. But after twenty-six years at the helm of Lehman College I can look back at my first day here\u2014September 1, 1990\u2014and the two-and-a-half decades that followed with immense pride at the things we have accomplished.\u201d To visit Lehman\u2019s College page honoring Dr. Ricardo R. Fern\u00e1ndez leadership go to:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/emagazines.lehman.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Ricardo R. Fern\u00e1ndez Looks Back at His 26-Year Presidency.<\/a> Dr. Fern\u00e1ndez was inducted, as one of the first members to the HETS Advisory Committee on July 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President, Lehman College Lehman College is one of the HETS Consortium\u2019s founding members (1993), led by Dr. Ricardo Fern\u00e1ndez, who served as President of the institution for 26 years. Dr. Fern\u00e1ndez made extraordinary contributions to the HETS Consortium as Chairman (2001-2004), and Vice Chairman (1998 to 2000). He was also a very active member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reference-posted","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"rcontreras","author_link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/author\/rcontreras\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}