{"id":5302,"date":"2012-03-02T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2012-03-02T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T15:18:57","slug":"usf-poly-puts-staff-student-recruiting-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/03\/02\/usf-poly-puts-staff-student-recruiting-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"USF Poly Puts Staff, Student Recruiting On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4870\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Polk County Sen. JD Alexander is pushing legislation that would turn USF Poly into the state's 12th university.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/jdalexanderbudget.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4870\" title=\"J.D. Alexander\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/jdalexanderbudget-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/jdalexanderbudget-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/jdalexanderbudget-220x181.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/02\/jdalexanderbudget.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Phil Coate \/ Associated Press<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polk County Sen. JD Alexander is pushing legislation that would turn USF Poly into the state&#39;s 12th university.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University of South Florida Polytechnic is not recruiting faculty or students while lawmakers debate the school&#8217;s future, its interim regional chancellor told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/article\/20120301\/NEWS\/120309977\/1338\/NEWS00?p=1&amp;tc=pg\"><em>The Lakeland Ledger<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not an atmosphere under which a quality academic staff can be drawn in, said Touchton. &#8220;We just feel like we need to wait and see what happens.&#8221; Advertisements \u00adpreviously posted for various open positions have been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>And it does not make sense to actively recruit students, either, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot be disingenuous,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s all there is to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>USF Poly recruiters expressed concerns last week about continuing to seek new students with all of the uncertainty now surrounding the university.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of South Florida Polytechnic is not recruiting faculty or students while lawmakers debate the school&#8217;s future, its interim regional chancellor told The Lakeland Ledger. From the story: It&#8217;s not an atmosphere under which a quality academic staff can be drawn in, said Touchton. &#8220;We just feel like we need to wait and see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":4870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1116,1074,1118],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}