{"id":2569,"date":"2019-12-16T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/?p=2569&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=2569"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:41:13","slug":"assembly-committee-on-colleges-and-universities-meeting-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/2019\/12\/16\/assembly-committee-on-colleges-and-universities-meeting-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities- recap of December 12 public hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held a public hearing on Thursday, December 12 at UW-Oshkosh. The committee heard from students and others on the following legislation relating to UW System:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/proposals\/reg\/asm\/bill\/ab536\">AB 536<\/a>\u2013 establishing a career advancement scholarship program<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2019\/proposals\/reg\/asm\/bill\/ab444\">AB 444<\/a>\u2013 free expression<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Cross submitted testimony on AB 444 for information only. You can see the testimony as well as the annual Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression report attached below.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Leavitt and UW-Green Bay\u2019s Student Success Coach, Samantha Post, testified in favor of AB 536. You can see their testimony <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/misc\/lc\/hearing_testimony_and_materials\/2019\/ab536\/ab0536_2019_12_12.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities held a public hearing on Thursday, December 12 at UW-Oshkosh. The committee heard from students and others on the following legislation relating to UW System: AB 536\u2013 establishing a career advancement scholarship program AB 444\u2013 free expression President Cross submitted testimony on AB 444 for information only. You [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}