{"id":1525,"date":"2015-06-11T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/?post_type=nshe_news&#038;p=1525"},"modified":"2022-07-25T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:31:08","slug":"regents-name-chet-burton-as-western-nevada-college-president","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/news\/2015\/06\/regents-name-chet-burton-as-western-nevada-college-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Regents name Chet Burton as Western Nevada College president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Board of Regents today unanimously approved the appointment of Chester &#8220;Chet&#8221; Burton as president of Western Nevada College. The regents will vote Friday morning on a contract detailing his compensation and length of service as president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Chet has done a remarkable job leading Western Nevada College in challenging times,&#8221; said Kevin J. Page, chairman of the Board of Regents. &#8220;He has brought increased stability, as well as a vision for a prosperous future for the college, its students and the surrounding communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burton has served as the interim president since December 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He previously served as vice president of finance and administrative services from July to October 2013 and was the college&#8217;s controller and fiscal director from 2009-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His diverse professional background includes 20 years as a supply officer in the U.S. Navy, including stints at the Pentagon and as a legislative liaison at Capitol Hill. He then launched a career in the corporate sector, working for nine years in a variety of roles including controller and finance director at International Game Technology (IGT), a global-reaching gaming machine manufacturer, headquartered in Reno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-43","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nshe.nevada.edu\/system-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}