{"id":936,"date":"2018-11-30T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=936"},"modified":"2019-01-15T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:04:40","slug":"reynolds-named-to-aacc-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/reynolds-named-to-aacc-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Reynolds Named to AACC Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seminole State College President Lana Reynolds has been selected to serve on the American Association of Community Colleges\u2019 (AACC) Commission on Small and Rural Colleges.\u00a0 The Commission, composed of Presidents of 13 Community Colleges from across the nation, recently convened for an inaugural two-day meeting in November in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Commissioners heard presentations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the state of rural America and discussed trends and issues impacting small and rural colleges.<\/p>\n

The Commission is chaired by Joseph Schaffer, President of Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming.\u00a0 Co-Chair of the Commission is Brent Knight, President of Lansing Community College, Lansing, Michigan.<\/p>\n

Others joining Reynolds on the Commission are the Presidents of Eastern New Mexico University; Northeast Community College in Nebraska; Glen Oaks Community College in Michigan.; Halifax Community College in North Carolina; Miles Community College in Montana; Dawson Community College in Montana; Dabney S. Lancaster Community College in Virginia; Clarendon College in Texas; Tillamook Bay Community College in Oregon and Mountain Empire Community College in Virginia.<\/p>\n

The AACC is the primary advocacy organization for the\u00a0nation\u2019s community colleges. The association represents nearly 1,200 two-year, associate degree-granting institutions and more than 12 million students.<\/p>\n

Reynolds, who has served in various roles at Seminole State College over the past 30 years, began her tenure as President of the institution in July, 2017.\u00a0 She is active in local and state organizations \u2013 currently serving on the Executive Committees of Leadership Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Academy of State Goals.\u00a0 She was named as a Trustee for her undergraduate alma mater Oklahoma Christian University in the spring of 2018.\u00a0 She is also a member of the Board of Advocates for the Oklahoma Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n

Locally, she is a member of the Jasmine Moran Children\u2019s Museum Board of Trustees, the Seminole Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Seminole Rotary Club.\u00a0 She serves as Chair of the Seminole Tourism Council.<\/p>\n

In 1991, she was selected as Seminole\u2019s \u201cCitizen of the Year\u201d and in 2008, the OCPRA named her \u201cCommunicator of the Year.\u201d She was also named as one of the Journal Record\u2019s \u201c50 Women Making a Difference\u201d in the state of Oklahoma in 2000, 2012 and 2013 \u2013 bringing her into the \u201cCircle of Excellence\u201d for her three-time selection.\u00a0 In November of 2017, she received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Oklahoma Christian University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seminole State College President Lana Reynolds has been selected to serve on the American Association of Community Colleges\u2019 (AACC) Commission on Small and Rural Colleges.\u00a0 The Commission, composed of Presidents of 13 Community Colleges from across the nation, recently convened for an inaugural two-day meeting in November in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,58],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-november-2018","tag-president-reynolds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}