{"id":19979,"date":"2017-10-30T14:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ua-takes-public-comment-on-proposal-to-change-mine-training-program\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T14:01:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T21:01:16","slug":"ua-takes-public-comment-on-proposal-to-change-mine-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ua-takes-public-comment-on-proposal-to-change-mine-training-program\/","title":{"rendered":"UA takes public comment on proposal to change mine training program"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have thoughts about the future of mine training at the University of Alaska Southeast, the University of Alaska Board of Regents wants to hear from you.<\/p>\n

From 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, the Board of Regents will take public testimony<\/a> on topics that will come up during its November budget meeting. Among those topics is the future of University of Alaska’s mine training program.<\/p>\n

The board is the university system’s governing body and must approve any changes suggested by the university president.<\/p>\n

The university is restructuring its programs statewide under the Strategic Pathways program<\/a>, which is designed to cut costs while affecting classes as little as possible.<\/p>\n

The Board of Regents will consider options for the university’s Arts and Humanities programs and its Social and Natural Sciences curriculum as well as its mine training efforts.<\/p>\n

There are four main options for the university’s mine training programs<\/a>: consolidate them in Fairbanks, consolidate them in Juneau, end all mine training statewide, or “enhance the existing structure,” a phrase that has in the past been used as a euphemism for raising tuition but may mean other reforms.<\/p>\n

Testimony will be taken by phone at 1-866-726-0757. Public testimony is limited to two minutes per person.<\/p>\n

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• Contact reporter James Brooks at james.k.brooks@juneauempire.com or call 523-2258.<\/b><\/p>\n

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If you have thoughts about the future of mine training at the University of Alaska Southeast, the University of Alaska Board of Regents wants to hear from you. From 4 to 6 p.m. Monday, the Board of Regents will take public testimony on topics that will come up during its November budget meeting. Among those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230,124],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news","tag-university-of-alaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19979"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}