{"id":12007,"date":"2016-08-10T09:07:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=12007"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:24","slug":"welcome-to-loyolas-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2016\/08\/10\/welcome-to-loyolas-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Loyola&#8217;s New President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lifelong educator and accomplished leader <strong>Jo Ann Rooney<\/strong> was named the 24th president of Loyola University Chicago on May 23. Dr. Rooney is the first lay president in the University\u2019s 146-year history and officially joined Loyola on August 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Loyola&#8217;s new president at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luc.edu\/presidentialsearch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LUC.edu\/presidentialsearch<\/a> and view more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luc.edu\/presidentialsearch\/photos\/archive\/rooney-announcement.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photos from the announcement<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2016\/08\/26597447103_e6151dfc60_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2016\/08\/26597447103_e6151dfc60_b.jpg\" alt=\"26597447103_e6151dfc60_b\" width=\"744\" height=\"627\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2016\/08\/26597447103_e6151dfc60_b.jpg 744w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2016\/08\/26597447103_e6151dfc60_b-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2016\/08\/26927383150_b0a9d56dde_b1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2016\/08\/26927383150_b0a9d56dde_b1.jpg\" alt=\"26927383150_b0a9d56dde_b\" width=\"903\" height=\"588\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2016\/08\/26927383150_b0a9d56dde_b1.jpg 903w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2016\/08\/26927383150_b0a9d56dde_b1-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifelong educator and accomplished leader Jo Ann Rooney was named the 24th president of Loyola University Chicago on May 23. Dr. Rooney is the first lay president in the University\u2019s 146-year history and officially joined Loyola on August 1, 2016. Learn more about Loyola&#8217;s new president at LUC.edu\/presidentialsearch and view more photos from the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12007"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17669,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions\/17669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}