{"id":3772,"date":"2017-05-31T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloghostdev.spcollege.edu\/technology-educational-information\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2024-07-25T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T17:09:55","slug":"twitter-moment-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2017\/05\/31\/twitter-moment-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Moment: Tonjua Williams Named SPC&#8217;s First Female and Black President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/about-the-president\/\">Dr. Tonjua Williams<\/a> continued her 30-year run as an employee of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/\">St. Petersburg College<\/a> and worked her way to the top. In May 2017, she was named the school&#8217;s first female and first black president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crowd that included faculty and staff broke into applause as the college&#8217;s five-member board of trustees unanimously chose Dr. Williams, 53, as their new leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is truly an honor,&#8221; Williams said later in an email. &#8220;What this proves is that there is no ceiling, not just for me, but for everyone who has a dream. This is what SPC is all about, helping people reach their dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams won over the board with her deep local ties, data-driven plans, and sheer love of SPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Williams, they said, delivered the best interview by far. Despite concerns that an internal candidate would have stale ideas, they liked her detailed plans for improving recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above all, they applauded her focus on students. She proposed that SPC change its mindset to become a &#8220;student-ready college,&#8221; able to serve those with all kinds of capabilities, rather than waiting for &#8220;college-ready students.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all things, she said, SPC should be championed as a proud choice: &#8220;the plan, not the fallback.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though she made history by being the first female and black president, these attributes were overshadowed by her qualifications, resume, and love for SPC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She met every qualification,&#8221; Rouson said of Williams. &#8220;Neither her gender nor her race is a qualification, but certainly is a reflection of the student body and how far we&#8217;ve come in St. Petersburg.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a class=\"twitter-moment\" data-width=\"640\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/moments\/870713630601424896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tonjua Williams Named New SPC President <\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appointment of Dr. Tonjua Williams to SPC&#8217;s Presidency drew plenty of congratulations and shares on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spc-inspires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5730,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/5730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}