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July 18, 2005: <\/strong>Judith A. Ramaley appointed WSU\u2019s fourteenth president<\/p>\n October 2005: WSU designated as lead institution for HealthForce Minnesota, a MnSCU Center of Excellence<\/p>\n April 7, 2006: Launches \u201cLearning for the 21st Century\u201d initiative during inauguration address<\/p>\n May 2007: Signs ACUP Climate Commitment to work towards climate neutrality by 2050<\/p>\n September 19, 2008: Kicks off yearlong sesquicentennial celebration, along with the university\u2019s first capital campaign, Light the Way<\/p>\n January 1, 2009: Campuses become tobacco-free, a visible step in enhancing community health and well-being<\/p>\n May 8, 2009: Awards university\u2019s first doctoral degree, the Doctorate of Nursing Practice<\/p>\n December 1, 2009: Bush Foundation grants WSU $4.04 million to transform teacher education in the region, the largest award in university history<\/p>\n September 17, 2010: Dedicates Integrated Wellness Complex, one of three Light the Way campaign initiatives<\/p>\n May 2011: Leads institution through two years of deep state budget deficits, avoiding significant program cuts and employee layoffs<\/p>\n August 2011: Completes restructuring of University Studies curricula to facilitate common standards for undergraduate and transfer students<\/p>\n August 15, 2011<\/strong>: Announces she will step down as president at conclusion of academic year<\/p>\n April 2012: Light the Way exceeds $10 million goal; WSU earns re-accreditation by Higher Learning Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 18, 2012 July 18, 2005: Judith A. Ramaley appointed WSU\u2019s fourteenth president October 2005: WSU designated as lead institution for HealthForce Minnesota, a MnSCU Center of Excellence April 7, 2006: Launches \u201cLearning for the 21st Century\u201d initiative during inauguration address May 2007: Signs ACUP Climate Commitment to work towards climate neutrality by 2050 September […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":" April 18, 2012<\/p> \u00a0<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,2,24],"tags":[559,561,552,560,558,7,8],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-wsu-magazine","category-wsu-news","tag-healthforce","tag-higher-learning-commission","tag-judith-ramaley","tag-light-the-way","tag-president","tag-winona-state-university","tag-wsu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PQMT-g4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}