{"id":11568,"date":"2023-06-29T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2023-08-31T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:25:31","slug":"smith-96-named-college-of-the-arts-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2023\/06\/29\/smith-96-named-college-of-the-arts-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith &#8217;96 named College of the Arts dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Royce-Smith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Royce-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11569\" width=\"150\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Royce-Smith.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Royce-Smith-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Royce W. Smith &#8217;96<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California State University, Long Beach, has named Royce W. Smith &#8217;96 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/news\/article\/royce-w-smith-named-csulbs-college-of-the-arts-dean\">dean of the College of the Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith has served the past seven years as dean of the College of the Arts and Architecture and professor of contemporary art history at Montana State University. Before that, he was director of the School of Art, Design and Creative Industries at Wichita State University in Kansas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith earned a master\u2019s in English from Purdue University and received another master\u2019s and his doctorate in contemporary art history and theory from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While at Wabash, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and majored in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California State University, Long Beach, has named Royce W. Smith &#8217;96 dean of the College of the Arts. Smith has served the past seven years as dean of the College of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":11569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/06\/Royce-Smith.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11597,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions\/11597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}