{"id":15576,"date":"2026-02-12T14:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=15576"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:43:31","slug":"umes-faculty-selected-for-new-leadership-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-monthly-digest\/umes-faculty-selected-for-new-leadership-program\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES faculty selected for new leadership program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/composite-bridgettenindowhitaker-1024x399.jpg\" alt=\"Three members of the School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences faculty are pictured for being selected for new leadership program.\" class=\"wp-image-15577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/composite-bridgettenindowhitaker-1024x399.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/composite-bridgettenindowhitaker-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/composite-bridgettenindowhitaker-768x299.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/composite-bridgettenindowhitaker-1536x598.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2026\/02\/composite-bridgettenindowhitaker-2048x798.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences faculty will take part in UMES\u2019 new <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/academic\/assistant-department-chairs-leadership-program\/\">Assistant Department Chair Leadership Program<\/a>. Pictured from left are, Drs. <strong>Bridgett Clinton-Scott<\/strong>, human ecology graduate program director; <strong>Caleb Nindo<\/strong>, professor of food processing and engineering, and food and agricultural sciences Ph.D. program director; and <strong>Justine Whitaker<\/strong>, assistant professor of environmental sciences. They are among 16 faculty members across disciplines selected for the pipeline to chair program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program runs October 2025-August 2026 with participants attending leadership seminars and receiving training and mentorship opportunities. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences faculty will take part in UMES\u2019 new Assistant Department Chair Leadership Program. Pictured from left are, Drs. Bridgett Clinton-Scott, human ecology graduate program director; Caleb Nindo, professor of food processing and engineering, and food and agricultural sciences Ph.D. program director; and Justine Whitaker, assistant professor of environmental sciences. They&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-monthly-digest\/umes-faculty-selected-for-new-leadership-program\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">UMES faculty selected for new leadership program<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":40,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,40],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-15576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-march-2026","category-sans-monthly-digest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15576"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=15576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}