{"id":5075,"date":"2023-08-31T20:14:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2024-01-08T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:32:11","slug":"spc-president-recognized-as-a-change-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2023\/08\/31\/spc-president-recognized-as-a-change-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC President recognized as a Change Maker in the 2023 Big Book of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessobserverfl.com\"><em>Business Observer<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessobserverfl.com\/big-book-of-business\">2023 Big Book of Business<\/a> special edition recognized SPC <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/about-the-president\/\">President Dr. Tonjua Williams<\/a> a Change-Maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In selecting this year\u2019s Change-Maker recipients, <em>Business Observer<\/em> editors sought leaders who are risk-takers, visionary thinkers and have a willingness to challenge the status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Business Observer<\/em> selected nine individuals from the Lakeland and Tampa south to Naples area for the Change Maker section. Dr. Williams is part of a select group of <strong>entrepreneurs, nonprofit executives<\/strong> <strong>and industry leaders<\/strong> who all share a common trait: they facilitate and lead sustainable change within their organization or larger community.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Williams has helped SPC reach new heights as the seventh president. The\u00a0<em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>\u00a0named SPC a top producer in the Fulbright Scholarship Program.\u00a0<em>U.S. News and World<\/em>\u00a0<em>Report<\/em>\u00a0ranked St. Petersburg College among the top in Best Online Bachelor\u2019s Programs and Veterans Services. The College received Best of the Best awards from the\u00a0<em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em>\u00a0for Best Local College and Best Nursing College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf there ever was a time for us to change what we do, we thought this was it. Which is also why we\u2019re so excited to offer a new tool that can inform and inspire business leaders,\u201d said Kat Wingert, executive editor of the <em>Business Observer<\/em>. \u201cThe people and companies featured in our second annual Big Book of Business are truly at the top of their industry and are leading change to help transform their communities and make them better places to live and do business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College President Dr. Williams is recognized as a Change Maker in the Business Observer&#8217;s 2023 Big Book of Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":5076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-spc-inspires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","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\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}