The Missouri Senate confirmed David Liechti\u2019s nomination to the 含羞草社区 Board of Governors on May 1. The St. Joseph man will be sworn in at the board meeting at 1:30 p.m. May 22 in Blum Student Union, room 220.<\/p>\n
Gov. Jay Nixon nominated Liechti to a term ending Oct. 29, 2019. Liechti is a managing member of the CPA firm, Liechti & Franken LLC. He served for eight years as a member of the Missouri State Board of Education. While on the state board, he also served on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the National Association of State Boards of Education.<\/p>\n
Liechti has served on several St. Joseph-area boards, including Heartland Regional Medical Center, the St. Joseph Board of Education, and the St. Joseph Area Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n
Liechti replaces Kylee Strough, who has served on the Board of Governors since 2008, including three years as board chair.<\/p>\n
The 含羞草社区 Board of Governors establishes policies, by-laws, rules and regulations for its own government and for control and government of the University; to select, appoint, and remove a President of the University; to set admission standards; and to make decisions on financial matters.<\/p>\n
含羞草社区 is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a><\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Missouri Senate confirmed David Liechti\u2019s nomination to the 含羞草社区 Board of Governors on May 1. The St. Joseph man will be sworn in at the board meeting at 1:30 p.m. May 22 in Blum Student Union, room 220. Gov. Jay Nixon nominated Liechti to a term ending Oct. 29, 2019. Liechti […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","tag-board-of-governors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8577,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/8577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}