In a letter to all FHSU staff, faculty and students, Dr. Mirta Martin resigned her position\u00a0as president of Fort Hays State University. \u00a0Her letter to FHSU is below.<\/p>\n
Dear Fort Hays State University community,<\/em><\/p>\n I am writing to inform you that as of today, Wednesday, November 23, 2016, I am stepping down for personal reasons from the position of President at Fort Hays State University.\u00a0\u00a0As called upon, I will serve as the Consultant to the President.\u00a0 \u00a0As of this writing, Mike Barnett, FHSU Vice President for Administration and Finance, will serve as the university\u2019s Acting President until the Kansas Board of Regents can name an Interim.<\/em><\/p>\n There are so many things about Fort Hays State University that I have been honored to take part in, and so many opportunities for this university to continue to grow and be successful.<\/em><\/p>\n I will offer my full support to transition this historic institution to new leadership and remain deeply appreciative of the opportunity I was given to make contributions to the higher education system here in Kansas.<\/em><\/p>\n Wishing you all the best,<\/em><\/p>\n M3<\/em><\/p>\n This is a developing story and TMN will continue to cover it as it evolves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a letter to all FHSU staff, faculty and students, Dr. Mirta Martin resigned her position\u00a0as president of Fort Hays State University. \u00a0Her letter to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,3398,11],"tags":[4106,106,10602,103],"class_list":["post-29855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","category-campus-news","category-news","tag-dr-mirta-martin","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-mike-barnett","tag-tiger-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29856,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29855\/revisions\/29856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}