{"id":4802,"date":"2008-12-02T15:58:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T23:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/12\/georgia-lawmaker-suggests-merging-historically-black-colleges\/"},"modified":"2008-12-02T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T23:58:59","slug":"georgia-lawmaker-suggests-merging-historically-black-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/12\/georgia-lawmaker-suggests-merging-historically-black-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia: Lawmaker suggests merging historically black colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Journal-Constitution: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/metro\/content\/metro\/stories\/2008\/12\/01\/historical_black_colleges.html\"> Lawmaker suggests merging historically black colleges<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nRepublican Seth Harp wants to save money by putting them with white-majority schools<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of a key state Senate committee wants the University System to consider merging historically black public colleges with nearby white-majority schools to save money.<\/p>\n<p>In making the suggestion Monday, Senate Higher Education Committee Chairman Seth Harp (R-Midland) immediately ran into opposition from supporters of the black schools who say they serve an important role as independent campuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Lawmaker suggests merging historically black colleges Republican Seth Harp wants to save money by putting them with white-majority schools The chairman of a key state Senate committee wants the University System to consider merging historically black public colleges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/12\/georgia-lawmaker-suggests-merging-historically-black-colleges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}