{"id":951,"date":"2025-10-14T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/951\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:01:09","slug":"usf-st-petersburg-regional-chancellor-named-president-of-texas-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/951\/","title":{"rendered":"USF St. Petersburg regional chancellor named president of Texas university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Christian Hardigree, the regional chancellor at the University of South Florida\u2019s St. Petersburg campus, is taking on a new role outside of Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She has been selected as the new Texas A&amp;M University-Victoria president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hardigree served as USF St. Petersburg\u2019s regional chancellor since 2022, and was previously the dean of the School of Hospitality at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs much as I love USF St. Petersburg, it has been my dream to serve as a university president,\u201d Hardigree wrote in a universitywide email. \u201cWhen Texas A&amp;M University-Victoria offered me this opportunity, I couldn\u2019t pass it up. But please know that this decision was not made lightly. You have become like family to me, and I will never forget the people I have met here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hardigree was selected as the sole finalist for the presidency in September. Her last day at USF will be Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lucy Marques is a reporter covering education as a member of the Tampa Bay Times Education Hub in partnership with Open Campus. You can contribute to the hub through our journalism fund by <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.tampabay.com\/forms\/journalismfund\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Hardigree, the regional chancellor at the University of South Florida\u2019s St. Petersburg campus, is taking on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1535,1534,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-christian-hardigree","tag-metropolitan-state-university","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}