{"id":43483,"date":"2019-02-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/university-board-of-regents-to-take-public-testimony\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:00:00","slug":"university-board-of-regents-to-take-public-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/university-board-of-regents-to-take-public-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"University Board of Regents to take public testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaskans are invited to voice their concerns about issues facing the University of Alaska during a public testimony with the Board of Regents from 4 to 6 p.m. today.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour session gives any Alaskan the opportunity to comment on issues such as the governor&rsquo;s proposed budget cuts to UA, input on UAA&rsquo;s School of Education accreditation status and other higher education issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Regents&rsquo; Academic and Student Affairs, and Facilities and Land Management committees will meet Feb. 21-22 in Fairbanks. To listen in on committee meetings, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaska.edu\/bor\/live\" target=\"_blank\">www.alaska.edu\/bor\/live<\/a>. However, there is no opportunity for public testimony at committee meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The full Board of Regents meeting is slated for Feb. 28-March 1 in Anchorage, and one hour of public testimony is planned on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda and meeting materials can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boarddocs.com\/ak\/alaska\/Board.nsf\/Public\" target=\"_blank\">www.boarddocs.com\/ak\/alaska\/Board.nsf\/Public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To participate, call 1-866-726-0757.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Roberta Graham, associate vice president of public affairs at 907-360-2416 (cell).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can voice your concerns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":43484,"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],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-43483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-education","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43483"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}