{"id":924,"date":"2016-10-24T15:17:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=924"},"modified":"2016-10-31T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:49:29","slug":"tstc-in-harlingen-provost-named-statewide-lead-provost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"TSTC in Harlingen Provost Named Statewide Lead Provost"},"content":{"rendered":"

(HARLINGEN) – Texas State Technical College has named TSTC in Harlingen\u2019s Provost Dr. Stella Garcia as its first Lead Provost for the college\u2019s 10 campuses across the state.<\/p>\n

As Lead Provost, Garcia will supervise activities, plan and organize assigned objectives, and oversee performance for the statewide provost team over the course of the one-year appointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy recent and past leadership experience has prepared me well for this role,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cI am honored and humbled to have been given this opport\"Lead<\/a>unity and to continue in service to South Texas and the students of TSTC.\u201d<\/p>\n

TSTC\u2019s Vice Chancellor and Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Kilgore said provost positions have been critical in the successes that have been seen and realized since TSTC became one college, and he is glad that Garcia has accepted the lead provost appointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cStella has demonstrated exemplary professionalism, integrity and leadership throughout her career,\u201d said Kilgore. \u201cWe are grateful to her for accepting these additional duties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia\u2019s time with TSTC dates back to September 2010 when she became associate vice president of Corporate and Community Education for TSTC in Harlingen. In June 2012 she was named chief of staff. One year later she became vice president of Institutional Effectiveness and Research, as well as served as the college\u2019s accreditation liaison, Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator and Institutional Review Board administrator. In May 2014 she was appointed interim president of TSTC-Harlingen, ultimately being named provost during TSTC\u2019s transition to a singly accredited college.<\/p>\n

Prior to coming to TSTC, Garcia held leadership roles with Workforce Solutions.<\/p>\n

She earned a Bachelor\u2019s of Science degree in Microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master\u2019s of Public Administration degree from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State University) and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from Our Lady of the Lake University.<\/p>\n

Texas State Technical College is the technical college of Texas serving statewide with campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood, Fort Bend Co., Harlingen, Marshall, Red Oak, Sweetwater, Waco and Williamson Co. Aligning its purpose of strengthening Texas with a highly skilled, technically competent workforce \u2013 TSTC recently adopted a funding model based on student employment outcomes. The college celebrated 50 years of service to the state of Texas in 2015.<\/p>\n

For more information on TSTC and the technologies offered visit tstc.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(HARLINGEN) – Texas State Technical College has named TSTC in Harlingen\u2019s Provost Dr. Stella Garcia as its first Lead Provost for the college\u2019s 10 campuses across the state. As Lead Provost, Garcia will supervise activities, plan and organize assigned objectives, and oversee performance for the statewide provost team over the course of the one-year appointment. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alltstc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}