{"id":3700,"date":"2011-03-04T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:25:04","slug":"postsecondary-education-program-changes-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=3700","title":{"rendered":"Postsecondary education program changes approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislature passed a bill March 4 that makes a variety of changes to positions and programs at the University of Nebraska and the State College System.<\/p>\n<p>LB334, introduced by the Education Committee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eliminates an aquaculturist position;<\/li>\n<li>repeals a requirement that the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources employ a poultry pathologist;<\/li>\n<li>limits eligibility for the Nebraska Optometry Education Assistance Contract Program to students who participated in the program in the 2010-11 academic year;<\/li>\n<li>makes operation of the Nebraska Business Development Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and university and state college campus small business development centers permissive rather than mandatory;<\/li>\n<li>eliminates a requirement that the university operate an agricultural lab in Box Butte County; and<\/li>\n<li>makes the university\u2019s request for general fund support for the Nebraska Safety Center permissive rather than mandatory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LB334 was approved 45-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislature passed a bill March 4 that makes a variety of changes to positions and programs at the University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10436,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/10436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}