{"id":9912,"date":"2025-10-18T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/9912\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:04:05","slug":"usf-st-pete-has-a-new-interim-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/9912\/","title":{"rendered":"USF St. Pete has a new interim leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2025 &#8211; Dr. Thomas W. Smith, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, will succeed Christian Hardigree as interim regional chancellor of the campus. Smith is a political science professor and has been a fixture at USF St. Petersburg for 25 years. He will assume his new role Nov. 4, a day after Hardigree <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/usf-st-pete-chancellor-says-goodbye\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaves the campus<\/a> to become president of Texas A&amp;M University-Victoria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 18, 2025 &#8211; Dr. Thomas W. Smith, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","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\/9912","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=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}