{"id":7187,"date":"2009-09-11T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2009-09-11T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T17:19:00","slug":"new-u-of-i-board-eliminates-preferential-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/09\/new-u-of-i-board-eliminates-preferential-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"New U. of I. board eliminates preferential admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-u-of-i-trustees-11-sep11,0,6487081.story\"> New U. of I. board eliminates preferential admissions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>URBANA &#8211; &#8212; Hoping to end a &#8220;sorry chapter&#8221; in University of Illinois&#8217; history, new board chair Christopher Kennedy and other trustees voted Thursday to eliminate all preferential admissions practices that led to a massive scandal at the state&#8217;s most prestigious campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Tribune: New U. of I. board eliminates preferential admissions URBANA &#8211; &#8212; Hoping to end a &#8220;sorry chapter&#8221; in University of Illinois&#8217; history, new board chair Christopher Kennedy and other trustees voted Thursday to eliminate all preferential admissions practices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/09\/new-u-of-i-board-eliminates-preferential-admissions\/\">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":[287],"tags":[2656,2204,4295],"class_list":["post-7187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-admissions","tag-scandal","tag-u-of-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187","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=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}