{"id":8199,"date":"2012-06-01T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=8199"},"modified":"2012-06-01T08:51:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:51:03","slug":"deadline-extended-for-fpu-trustee-hopefuls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/01\/deadline-extended-for-fpu-trustee-hopefuls\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Extended For FPU Trustee Hopefuls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8203\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 240px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/01\/deadline-extended-for-fpu-trustee-hopefuls\/usf-polytechnic-robo-demo-at-blue-sky-west-feb-9-2010\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8203\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8203\" title=\"USF Polytechnic Robo Demo at Blue Sky West. Feb. 9, 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/USF-Poly2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">lakelandlocal\/flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">USF Polytechnic Robo Demo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poly.usf.edu\/\">Florida Polytechnic University<\/a> (FPU) is popular.<\/p>\n<p>After an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flbog.edu\/pressroom\/news.php?id=451\">onslaught of applications<\/a>, the deadline has been extended for anyone hoping to be on FPU\u2019s Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p>39 applications were received by yesterday\u2019s deadline. <!--more-->Mori Hosseini, who chairs the Board of Governors (BOG) nominating committee, decided the late surge in applicants warranted some extra time. So, he extended the deadline for wanna-be trustees to 4 P.M. on Monday, June 4.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BOG\u2019s Kelly Layman, \u201cSome of the applicants hold public elected offices or are current faculty or administrators. By state law, they would need to resign those positions if selected in order to serve on the Board of Trustees.\u201d Layman said they are working to make applicants aware of the law.<\/p>\n<p>BOG will appoint five members to the Board of Trustees. Gov. Rick Scott will choose six members, and the remaining two positions will be filled by a faculty leader and the student body president.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline extension came just hours after dozens of <a href=\"http:\/\/wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu\/post\/polk-leaders-rally-polytechnic\">Polk County business and community leaders rallied yesterday<\/a> to throw their support behind Florida\u2019s 12<sup>th<\/sup>public university. They\u2019ve created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridapolyvision.com\/\">Florida Poly Vision<\/a>, a group that will recruit members to serve as cheerleaders and fundraisers for the new school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Florida Polytechnic University (FPU) is popular. After an onslaught of applications, the deadline has been extended for anyone hoping to be on FPU\u2019s Board of Trustees. 39 applications were received by yesterday\u2019s deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1149,458,445],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199"}],"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=8199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8209,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8199\/revisions\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}