{"id":35968,"date":"2018-07-26T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/highline-college-welcomes-new-president-john-mosby\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:28:13","slug":"highline-college-welcomes-new-president-john-mosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/highline-college-welcomes-new-president-john-mosby\/","title":{"rendered":"Highline College welcomes new president John Mosby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highline College officially welcomed new president John Mosby with a reception July 12 at the campus, 2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines.<\/p>\n

Mosby previously served as the vice president for student services at Mission College in Santa Clara, California. He has more than 23 years of higher education experience and has a doctorate in leadership\/higher education administration from the University of San Diego.<\/p>\n

Mosby is filling the vacancy left by Jack Bermingham, who retired in August 2017 after more than a decade as president. Mosby is the college’s seventh president.<\/p>\n

Highline’s Board of Trustees is responsible for selecting and employing the college president. It is made up of community members from Highline’s service area of South King County: Dan Altmayer and Bob Roegner, both of Federal Way; Debrena Jackson Gandy, Des Moines; Fred Mendoza, Normandy Park; and Sili Savusa, White Center.<\/p>\n

Highline College was founded in 1961 as the first community college in King County and now serves more than 17,000 students.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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