{"id":8150,"date":"2010-04-15T07:32:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2010-04-15T07:32:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:32:37","slug":"sc-keeps-lone-black-trustee-on-university-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/04\/sc-keeps-lone-black-trustee-on-university-board\/","title":{"rendered":"SC keeps lone black trustee on university board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2010\/04\/14\/1243066\/legislators-could-elect-all-white.html#ixzz0lBQ5BZa1\">SC keeps lone black trustee on university board<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8212; State lawmakers voted to retain the only black member of the University of South Carolina&#8217;s board of trustees Wednesday in a vote that drew attention to the board&#8217;s lack of diversity and threatened the school&#8217;s football recruiting.<br \/>\nLeah Moody, an attorney, was elected by an 80-77 vote to continue to represent York and Union counties. She defeated Alton Hyatt, a white pharmacist and lawyer who was considered a favorite last month before black lawmakers decried the prospect of losing Moody.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2010\/04\/14\/1243066\/legislators-could-elect-all-white.html#ixzz0lBQZbXfu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State: SC keeps lone black trustee on university board COLUMBIA, S.C. &#8212; State lawmakers voted to retain the only black member of the University of South Carolina&#8217;s board of trustees Wednesday in a vote that drew attention to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2010\/04\/sc-keeps-lone-black-trustee-on-university-board\/\">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":[287,125,1223],"tags":[1288966,1288936,2719,8058],"class_list":["post-8150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","category-diversity","category-governance","tag-athletics","tag-governance","tag-trustees","tag-u-of-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150","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=8150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8151,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8150\/revisions\/8151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}