{"id":160648,"date":"2026-02-02T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160648\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:22:19","slug":"csub-appoints-new-kegley-institute-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160648\/","title":{"rendered":"CSUB appoints new Kegley Institute director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 California State University, Bakersfield has named a new permanent director for the Kegley Institute of Ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nate Olson was appointed to lead the institute, which has brought nationally renowned speakers to Kern County since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Olson, who chairs the Religious Studies Department at CSUB, has served as interim director since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The institute focuses on providing ethics education and fostering dialogue across political and social differences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now we&#8217;re doing a program with the Kegley Institute that&#8217;s about having conversations across political and social differences. I just came back from being in the snowstorm on the East Coast. We brought students to Harvard University where we were learning about, and students were learning about dialogue skills,&#8221; Olson said.<\/p>\n<p>The institute is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Olson says he&#8217;s excited to continue building relationships and hosting thought-provoking conversations for both CSUB students and community members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 California State University, Bakersfield has named a new permanent director for the Kegley Institute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,153,152,78097,26595,78098,78100,78099,735,162,78101],"class_list":["post-160648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-california-state-university-of-bakersfield","tag-csub","tag-dr-nate-olson","tag-ethics-education","tag-kegley-institute-of-ethics","tag-kern-county","tag-kern-county-news","tag-religious-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}