{"id":11095,"date":"2013-10-22T06:20:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T06:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/university-of-rwanda-names-o-neal-as-chancellor\/"},"modified":"2013-10-22T06:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T06:20:10","slug":"university-of-rwanda-names-o-neal-as-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/university-of-rwanda-names-o-neal-as-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Rwanda names O&#8217;Neal as chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3845 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dr-mike-oneal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Mike O\u2019Neal, a former president of Oklahoma Christian University, has been named chancellor of the University of Rwanda, the umbrella institution under which all state universities in the country fall.<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame announced O\u2019Neal\u2019s appointment this week. <\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neal will not get involved in the day-to-day operations of the institution, but will rather be the advocate for its vision and advancement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not like what we would think of as a (university) president here,\u201d O\u2019Neal said.<\/p>\n<p> O\u2019Neal said his role will be largely ceremonial, presiding at graduation ceremonies and other events. He only agreed to take the position on the condition that he would be able to help move higher education in Rwanda forward, he said. He will continue to live in Oklahoma. Under his leadership at Oklahoma Christian, many Rwandan students received support and sponsorships. The university offers a master of business administration program in Kigali, Rwanda\u2019s capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Edmondsun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Mike O\u2019Neal, a former president of Oklahoma Christian University, has been named chancellor of the University of Rwanda, the umbrella institution under which all state universities in the country fall. } President Paul Kagame announced O\u2019Neal\u2019s appointment this week. O\u2019Neal will not get involved in the day-to-day operations of the institution, but will rather be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000048949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-11095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000048949,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11095.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11095.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11095.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11095.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11095.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton11095.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000048949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11095"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=11095"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=11095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}