{"id":8153,"date":"2012-05-31T12:39:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T16:39:34","slug":"business-leaders-rally-for-florida-polytechnic-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/31\/business-leaders-rally-for-florida-polytechnic-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Leaders Rally For Florida Polytechnic University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8154\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 185px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/31\/business-leaders-rally-for-florida-polytechnic-university\/jd-alexander-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8154\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8154\" title=\"JD Alexander\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/JD-Alexander.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flsenate.gov<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. J.D. Alexander<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Polk County business leaders are so excited about the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poly.usf.edu\/\">Florida Polytechnic University<\/a> (FPU), they held a news conference this morning to announce their support. It was part of a rally at the United Way of Central Florida in Lakeland.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 community and business leaders have formed Florida Poly Vision, Inc. to show their support for Florida&#8217;s 12th public university. Members say they are providing a much-needed voice for the new institution.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridapolyvision.com\/\">The group\u2019s website states<\/a>, \u201cWith dreams of leading the nation in technology and innovation-driven higher education from its base in Polk County, Florida Poly Vision&#8217;s leadership and members are proud to be a part of the overall effort to move Florida Polytechnic University forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FPU split off from the University of South Florida, where it was known as USF Polytechnic. A bill creating FPU was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/article1226125.ece\">signed by Gov. Rick Scott<\/a> in April. The new campus was a priority for Senate Budget Chairman J.D. Alexander, who is a citrus grower in Polk County. He was among those speaking in support of FPU at today&#8217;s rally.<\/p>\n<p>This is the last day to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flbog.edu\/pressroom\/news.php?id=451\">apply for FPU\u2019s Board of Trustees<\/a>. About 40 applications have been received for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flbog.edu\/aboutsus\/ubt.php\">the eleven citizen slots<\/a>. The other two slots will be held by a faculty leader and the student body president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk County business leaders are so excited about the new Florida Polytechnic University (FPU), they held a news conference this morning to announce their support. It was part of a rally at the United Way of Central Florida in Lakeland. More than 60 community and business leaders have formed Florida Poly Vision, Inc. to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1149,445,1116],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153"}],"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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}