{"id":200503,"date":"2023-12-05T20:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=200503"},"modified":"2023-12-06T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:55:36","slug":"college-of-new-caledonia-welcomes-its-first-female-president-cindy-heitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/college-of-new-caledonia-welcomes-its-first-female-president-cindy-heitman\/","title":{"rendered":"College of New Caledonia welcomes its first female president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/cnc.bc.ca\/\">College of New Caledonia<\/a> (CNC) marks a new chapter as it officially welcomed its first female president and CEO,\u00a0 Cindy Heitman.\u00a0 She was installed in the role at the November meeting of the CNC's Board of Governors.<\/p>\n<p>Though the college is now on its 54th year of operation, the symbolism of this moment isn\u2019t lost on Heitman, \u201cI think what makes it even more significant for me personally is that I\u2019m from this community, and I\u2019m from the North.\u201d Heitman\u2019s credentials originate from CNC itself, where she spent her first two years of higher education.<\/p>\n<p>She cites current challenges the institution faces -- its northern geography; addressing educational needs specific to the region; and increasing accessibility for all students with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/centre-for-teaching-and-learning\/teaching-support\/indigenization\/index.html#:~:text=Services%2C%20and%20Advisors)-,Indigenization,spaces%2C%20places%2C%20and%20hearts.\">Indigenization<\/a> in mind. As she explores these challenges, she stresses the importance of networking, stating \u201cyour first few years are really about mobilizing, relationship building, creating communities to do this work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of New Caledonia (CNC) marks a new chapter as it officially welcomed its first female president and CEO,\u00a0 Cindy Heitman.\u00a0 She was installed in the role at the November meeting of the CNC&#8217;s Board of Governors. Though the college is now on its 54th year of operation, the symbolism of this moment isn\u2019t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":200511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221],"tags":[33796,5894,33795,31865,12343,4355,11936],"radio":[238],"origine":[280,264,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200636,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200503\/revisions\/200636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200503"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=200503"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=200503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}