{"id":4537,"date":"2016-08-31T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T18:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2016-08-31T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T18:38:03","slug":"opening-convocation-change-hope-and-promise-dr-lee-snyder-interim-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2016\/08\/31\/opening-convocation-change-hope-and-promise-dr-lee-snyder-interim-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Convocation: &#8220;Change, Hope and Promise&#8221;- Dr. Lee Snyder, Interim President"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/08.31.16--Convocation.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/president\/interim\/\">Interim President Dr. Lee Snyder<\/a> addresses the campus community on\u00a0<em>Change, Hope and Promise<\/em>. We will also be sending the Cross-Cultural seminar group to Central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, Turkey)\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">AND<\/span>welcoming new students to the campus community with the \u201cShenandoah Welcome\u201d toward the close of the service.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014-<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/president\/interim\/\">Dr. Lee Snyder<\/a>\u00a0brings a lifetime of service to Mennonite higher education to the interim role. From 1996 until retiring in 2006, Snyder served as the eighth president of Bluffton (Ohio) University.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, she was vice president and academic dean for 12 years at\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">EMU<\/span>. Snyder, who holds a doctorate in American and Victorian literature from the University of Oregon, came to\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">EMU<\/span>\u00a0in 1974. Until 1982, she taught part-time in the humanities and in English, and was an assistant in the dean\u2019s office. She was named academic dean in 1984 and then assumed the responsibilities of vice president as well in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>After retiring from Bluffton University, Snyder returned to\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">EMU<\/span>\u00a0to serve as interim provost for the 2008-09 academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/08.31.16--Convocation.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>Interim President Dr. Lee Snyder addresses the campus community on\u00a0Change, Hope and Promise. We will also be sending the Cross-Cultural seminar group to Central Europe (Austria, Czech Republic, Turkey)\u00a0ANDwelcoming new students to the campus community with the \u201cShenandoah Welcome\u201d toward the close of the service. \u2014\u2014- Dr. Lee Snyder\u00a0brings a lifetime of service to Mennonite....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,409],"tags":[4444,4123],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-speakers","category-chapel","tag-convocation","tag-lee-snyder","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}