{"id":91628,"date":"2014-10-25T17:37:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T22:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=91628"},"modified":"2014-10-25T17:39:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T22:39:50","slug":"dr-leander-russ-mcdonald-selected-new-united-tribes-technical-college-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/91628\/dr-leander-russ-mcdonald-selected-new-united-tribes-technical-college-president","title":{"rendered":"United Tribes Technical College Selects Dr. Leander \u201cRuss\u201d McDonald As New President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unanimous decision, United Tribes Technical College has selected\u00a0Dr. Leander \u201cRuss\u201d McDonald as its new president, replacing departing long-time president David Gipp.<\/p>\n<p>An enrolled citizen of the Spirit Lake Tribe, McDonald is a former\u00a0tribal chairman. He&#8217;s expected to start his duties next week.<\/p>\n<p>United Tribes was founded in 1969 by an intertribal organization called the United Tribes of North Dakota Development Corporation. It is a nonprofit college serving over 800 students and governed by the five tribes of North Dakota:\u00a0Three Affiliated Tribes, the Spirit Lake Tribe, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.<\/p>\n<p>This will be UTTC&#8217;s\u00a0first new president in 37 years.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfyrtv.com\/story\/26967122\/uttc-selects-new-president\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.kfyrtv.com\/story\/26967122\/uttc-selects-new-president<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unanimous decision, United Tribes Technical College has selected\u00a0Dr. Leander \u201cRuss\u201d McDonald as its new president, replacing departing long-time president David Gipp. An enrolled citizen of the Spirit Lake Tribe, McDonald is a former\u00a0tribal chairman. He&#8217;s expected to start his duties next week. United Tribes was founded in 1969 by an intertribal organization called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,216],"tags":[1971,1970,217,1064,1830],"class_list":["post-91628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-featured","tag-david-gipp","tag-dr-leander-russ-mcdonald","tag-education","tag-ticker","tag-united-tribes-technical-college"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}