{"id":994,"date":"2015-06-01T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?p=994"},"modified":"2015-06-01T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:37:17","slug":"capital-region-uupers-join-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Capital Region UUPers join the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/uupinfo.org\/images\/frontpageslider\/15\/CapRegionRegMeet2015.jpg\" alt=\"uupdate 5-29-15\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reynolds Jones of Empire State College, right, describes what\u2019s happening on his campus during a regional meeting with UUP officers May 29 in Albany.<\/p>\n<p>UUP\u2019s leadership team continued to gather input and share strategies with members during the latest in a series of regional meetings that have taken place around the state since early spring. More than two dozen members from Capital Region chapters came together to voice their opinions to UUP\u2019s statewide officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese meetings give the officers a chance to devote time to listen to the concerns from specific group of members,\u201d said UUP President Fred Kowal. \u201cSmall-group discussions like this provide the opportunity to delve deeper into the issues and exchange information in a much more intimate way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds Jones, ESC Chapter vice president for professionals\u2014pictured above, right, with Cobleskill Chapter VP for Professionals Chad Hisert, left, and Cobleskill Chapter Secretary Cliff DaVis\u2014joined leaders from UUP\u2019s Albany New Paltz and Utica\/Rome chapters to discuss topics from declining enrollments to budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Kowal used the meeting to brief the leaders on the union\u2019s post-budget legislative priorities, including its call for adequate \u201cmaintenance of effort\u201d funding to cover SUNY\u2019s hospitals and mandatory costs.<\/p>\n<p>VP for Professionals Philippe Abraham, VP for Academics Jamie Dangler and Secretary Eileen Landy also took part in the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reynolds Jones of Empire State College, right, describes what\u2019s happening on his campus during a regional meeting with UUP officers May 29 in Albany. UUP\u2019s leadership team continued to gather input and share strategies with members during the latest in a series of regional meetings that have taken place around the state since early spring. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}