{"id":6571,"date":"2014-07-10T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hets.org\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2014-07-10T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:40:15","slug":"new-executive-committee-elected-during-summer-2014-board-meeting-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/new-executive-committee-elected-during-summer-2014-board-meeting-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"New Executive Committee elected during summer 2014 Board Meeting in New York."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6572\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6572\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Executive-committee-in-action.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6572 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Executive-committee-in-action-400x119.jpg\" alt=\"Executive committee in action\" width=\"400\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election of new HETS Board of Officers took place during the Summer Board Meeting hosted by Lehman College and it&#8217;s President, Dr. Ricardo Fern\u00e1ndez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, <strong>Manuel Fern\u00f3s, Esq.<\/strong>, was reelected as<strong> HETS Chairman<\/strong> during the annual summer Board Meeting celebrated at Lehman College, NY on June 19-20, 2014. Collaborating with Fern\u00f3s as HETS Board of Officers will be <strong>Dr. Gloria Baquero<\/strong>, President of National University College elected as <strong>First Vice Chair<\/strong>; <strong>Dr. Carlos Vargas<\/strong>, Interim President from Kutztown University, reelected as <strong>Second Vice Chair,<\/strong> and President of the Ana G. M\u00e9ndez University System, <strong>Dr. Jos\u00e9 F. M\u00e9ndez <\/strong>elected as the new <strong>Treasurer<\/strong>.\u00a0<!--more--> Additional reelections includes; <strong>Dr. Dario Cort\u00e9s<\/strong>, President of Berkeley College as <strong>secretary<\/strong>; <strong>Eng. Gladys Nieves<\/strong>, President of EDP College; and <strong>Dr. Carole Berrotte Joseph<\/strong>, President of Bronx Community College; as <strong>regional representatives. <\/strong>The HETS Board also welcomes new additions to its Executive Committee with the election of <strong>Dr. Richard Shrubb<\/strong>, President of Minnesota West Community and Technical Institute and <strong>Dr. Carlos Morales<\/strong>, President of TCC Connect at Tarrant County College in Texas also as <strong>regional representatives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6573\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dr.-JJRiveraFarewell-speech.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6573 \" src=\"http:\/\/hets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dr.-JJRiveraFarewell-speech-400x242.jpg\" alt=\"HETS Chairman Fern\u00f3s and Executive Director Montalvo, observes Dr. Rivera during his farewell speech to Board Members and representatives.\" width=\"228\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HETS Chairman Fern\u00f3s and Executive Director Montalvo, observes Dr. Rivera during his farewell speech to Board Members and representatives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of the meeting, the Board also recognized HETS former Treasurer, and President of the <em>Universidad del Sagrado Coraz\u00f3n<\/em>, Dr. Jos\u00e9 Jaime Rivera, on his retirement and were thankful of his commitment and valuable contributions to HETS during the past years.<\/p>\n<p>HETS would like to congratulate its Executive Committee and appreciates its support and confidence in our Consortium to promote support, and increase the capabilities of member institutions in order to enhance Hispanic\/Latino student success and opportunities in Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Manuel Fern\u00f3s, Esq., was reelected as HETS Chairman during the annual summer Board Meeting celebrated at Lehman College, NY on June 19-20, 2014. Collaborating with Fern\u00f3s as HETS Board of Officers will be Dr. Gloria Baquero, President of National University College elected as First Vice Chair; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6572,"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":[30,28],"tags":[100,272,433],"class_list":{"0":"post-6571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hets-news","8":"category-whats-new","9":"tag-board-meeting","10":"tag-lehman-college","11":"tag-usc","12":"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\/6571","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=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hets.org\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}