{"id":27510,"date":"2019-07-22T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=27510"},"modified":"2019-07-22T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:55:40","slug":"joel-wells-takes-post-as-utc-registrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/joel-wells-takes-post-as-utc-registrar\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Wells takes post as UTC registrar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"27512\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/joel-wells-takes-post-as-utc-registrar\/wells-joel-19\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/joelwells.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"445,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Joel Wells, registrar, Monday, July 22, 2019&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1563697934&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;175&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Wells-Joel-19&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wells-Joel-19\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Joel Wells, registrar, Monday, July 22, 2019&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/joelwells.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27512\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/joelwells.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/joelwells.jpg 445w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/joelwells-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/joelwells-148x200.jpg 148w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/07\/joelwells-297x400.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joel\u00a0Wells has been named as the new registrar for UTC and will take the post on July 22.<\/p>\n<p>Wells takes the position held by Sandy Zitkus, who retired from UTC after 42 years in the Records Office.<\/p>\n<p>The registrar is in charge of a university\u2019s Records Office, which maintains student academic records and handles student registration operations.<\/p>\n<p>Wells\u00a0most recently served as registrar at Sewanee: The University of the South. He also has worked as registrar at\u00a0North Central College in Illinois and as\u00a0associate registrar at both Sewanee and Covenant College.<\/p>\n<p>He has a bachelor of arts from Covenant College and master\u2019s of art from Wheaton College in intercultural studies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New UTC registrar is now on the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/joel-wells-takes-post-as-utc-registrar\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7712,8293],"tags":[83558,7261,83557],"class_list":{"0":"post-27510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faculty-and-staff","8":"category-office-of-the-chancellor","9":"tag-joel-wells","10":"tag-records-office","11":"tag-registrar","12":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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