{"id":438447,"date":"2026-09-17T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438447\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:48:09","slug":"east-texas-tonight-tjc-president-is-more-than-just-an-academic-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438447\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: TJC president is more than just an academic executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Tonight, we\u2019re sitting down with a man who has spent much of his career in education \u2014 and for more than a decade now, he\u2019s called East Texas home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Juan E. Mejia has served as the President and CEO of Tyler Junior College since 2019, after previously serving in academic leadership roles at TJC and South Texas College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But tonight, we\u2019re not just talking about the college or the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We\u2019re getting to know the man behind the office \u2014 his journey, the people who influenced him, the memories he\u2019s made throughout his career and what keeps him passionate about education and serving students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr. Mejia, thank you for joining us on East Texas Tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Tonight, we\u2019re sitting down with a man who has spent much of his career&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133173,91600,27,29,28,151932,9011,34063],"class_list":["post-438447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-east-texas-tonight","tag-juan-mejia","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tjc","tag-tyler","tag-tyler-junior-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}