{"id":512577,"date":"2026-01-13T06:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/512577\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T06:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:47:27","slug":"national-constitution-center-is-looking-for-a-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/512577\/","title":{"rendered":"National Constitution Center is looking for a new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia announced Friday afternoon that Jeffrey Rosen has stepped down as president and CEO. Effective immediately, Vince Stango, vice president, is interim president and CEO.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rosen, a scholar of constitutional law, came to the NCC 12 years ago with the mission of turning it into a bipartisan town hall for discussing issues related to the United States\u2019 founding document.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal was to create an American institution that convenes people of different perspectives for civil dialogue and debate and inspires people to learn about our Founding ideals,\u201d Rosen wrote in a statement. \u201cAs we approach America\u2019s 250th anniversary, I am proud to pass the baton to Vince and our exceptional leadership team who are fully ready to guide the Center\u2019s next chapter.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>Stango has been with the Constitution Center since 1999, predating its opening in 2003. He said Rosen came to the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/juneteenth-philly-national-constitution-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCC<\/a> in 2013 when the organization was \u201cstruggling to find its identity,\u201d giving it a clear purpose for civic dialogue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a mission and he surely met and exceeded his goals as CEO,\u201d Stango said. \u201cAfter a 12 \u00bd-year tenure as CEO, he and then the board felt it was time to make that change at the start of the year rather than at some later point.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Stango added that the Constitution Center ended its 2024-2025 fiscal year in one of its strongest financial positions ever.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo part of this change has anything to do with the financial strength of the organization,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rosen said he will devote more of his time to writing and public engagement. His 2024 book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/jeffrey-rosen-pursuit-of-happiness-national-constitution-center-founding-fathers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pursuit of Happiness<\/a>,\u201d about the philosophical underpinnings of the Declaration of Independence\u2019s famous phrase, was a New York Times bestseller. He has since released a second book, \u201cThe Pursuit of Liberty,\u201d and aspires to make it a trilogy with a proposed third book, \u201cPursuit of Union.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Rosen also hosted \u201cPursuit,\u201d a 12-episode podcast exploring concepts in his books with filmmaker Ken Burns and invited guests. He\u2019s also <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/jeffrey-rosen-songs-pursuit-of-happiness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written a dozen art songs<\/a>, taking inspiration from 12 virtues Benjamin Franklin listed as essential to living a good life.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":512578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,229082,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-512577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-national-constitution-center","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115886453264331667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}