{"id":94164,"date":"2025-08-27T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=94164"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:14:17","slug":"inauguration-of-utoledos-19th-president-slated-for-oct-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_27_2025\/inauguration-of-utoledos-19th-president-slated-for-oct-16","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration of UToledo\u2019s 19th President Slated for Oct. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo will celebrate the inauguration of Dr. James Holloway as the University\u2019s 19th president with a public ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. in Savage Arena, with a reception to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-94166\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P-901-Presidential-Inauguration-UToledoNews.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional graphic announcing that The University of Toledo will celebrate the inauguration of Dr. James Holloway as the University\u2019s 19th president with a public ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 16.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P-901-Presidential-Inauguration-UToledoNews.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P-901-Presidential-Inauguration-UToledoNews-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>The campus community and the public are invited to hear Holloway share his vision for the institution and celebrate this new chapter in UToledo\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Selected following an extensive national search, Holloway began his tenure as UToledo\u2019s president July 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A nuclear engineer, Holloway\u2019s career has been a mix of research, teaching, administration and global work, including in India, Ethiopia and Ghana. He joined UToledo from the University of New Mexico, where he had served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs since July 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The University is planning a series of events to take place connected to the inauguration, which is timed to take place near UToledo\u2019s Founder\u2019s Day on Oct. 12 that marks the date in 1872 when the Articles of Incorporation were drawn up for the Toledo University of Arts and Trades.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the inauguration and related events will be shared on the inauguration website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/inauguration\/\">utoledo.edu\/inauguration<\/a>, as details are finalized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_27_2025\/inauguration-of-utoledos-19th-president-slated-for-oct-16\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/P-901-Presidential-Inauguration-UToledoNews-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Promotional graphic announcing that The University of Toledo will celebrate the inauguration of Dr. James Holloway as the University\u2019s 19th president with a public ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 16.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>The ceremony for Dr. James Holloway will take place at 3 p.m. in Savage Arena, with a reception to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":94166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,32,34,5,35,61,36,498,53,30,38,39,1,40,41,42,62,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94167,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94164\/revisions\/94167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}