{"id":41574,"date":"2019-01-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/university-of-alaska-board-of-regents-to-meet-today-in-anchorage\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T01:34:06","slug":"university-of-alaska-board-of-regents-to-meet-today-in-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/university-of-alaska-board-of-regents-to-meet-today-in-anchorage\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Alaska Board of Regents to meet today in Anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Alaska Board of Regents will meet in Anchorage today for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/university-of-alaska-anchorages-teaching-programs-lose-accreditation\/\" target=\"_blank\">UAA&rsquo;s teaching program lost accreditation<\/a>. The main agenda item will be to discuss cost effectiveness of the university system, their fifth strategic goal.<\/p>\n<p>Their goal of operating more cost-effectively means they want to decrease the total cost of education per student, while also increasing the number of full time students who actually graduate.<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaskas-teachers-are-leaving-at-much-higher-than-the-national-average-heres-whats-being-done-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Alaska&rsquo;s teachers are leaving at a much higher rate than the national average. Here&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s being done about it.]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>The board will also approve a charter for a committee, which is designed to make recommendations to the Board of Regents about what board members&rsquo; roles should be. The board will also hear updates from chancellors of the university satellites, including University of Alaska Southeast Chancellor Rick Caulfield.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting takes place at the University of Alaska Anchorage from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Interested members of the public can livestream the meeting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaska.edu\/bor\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.alaska.edu\/bor\/live\/. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The university&rsquo;s budget has shrunk in recent years (the subject of cost-cutting efforts by the Alaska Legislature). Lawmakers approved a $10 million funding increase in 2017, the first such rise since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Regents and other university officials have said that increase was helpful but insufficient to keep the University of Alaska competitive with other institutions across the country.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact reporter Mollie Barnes at mbarnes@juneauempire.com or 523-2228.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can livestream the meeting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":41590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[122,230,124],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-education","tag-state-news","tag-university-of-alaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574","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\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41574"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}