{"id":2927,"date":"2015-05-09T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2015-05-09T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:35:12","slug":"jus-president-invested-as-an-endowed-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/09\/jus-president-invested-as-an-endowed-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"JUS president invested as an endowed chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-09-at-1.31.27-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2928\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-09-at-1.31.27-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-09 at 1.31.27 PM\" width=\"84\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a>On May 3, John Updike Society president <strong>James\u00a0Plath<\/strong> was invested as the R. Forrest Colwell Chair of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he has taught for the past 27 years. The appointment is for six years, renewable for five-year terms thereafter. The committee cited his work on Hemingway and Updike, his work with\u00a0student organizations, and his long-term service on both major committees and the Faculty-Staff Recognition Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2015\/three-faculty-named-endowed-professors.html\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 3, John Updike Society president James\u00a0Plath was invested as the R. Forrest Colwell Chair of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he has taught for the past 27 years. The appointment is for six years, renewable for five-year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/09\/jus-president-invested-as-an-endowed-chair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}