{"id":12158,"date":"2012-10-12T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=12158"},"modified":"2012-10-12T13:42:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T17:42:07","slug":"unh-president-pushes-for-restored-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/10\/12\/unh-president-pushes-for-restored-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"UNH President Pushes For Restored Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following was contributed by <strong>Sam Evans-Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_12160\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 280px;\"><a class='fancybox' href='http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/10\/Huddleston-by-Mike-Ross-UNH-Photographic-Services.jpg' rel='' title=''><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/10\/Huddleston-by-Mike-Ross-UNH-Photographic-Services.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Huddleston by Mike Ross UNH Photographic Services\" width=\"280\" height=\"194\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Mike Ross \/ UNH Photographic Services<\/p><\/div>This week, University of New Hampshire President Mark Huddleston\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unh.edu\/news\/releases\/2012\/oct\/jr11state.cfm\">delivered\u00a0<\/a>his State of the University address.\u00a0He used the speech to reiterate his call to restore the cuts to the State University funding.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In exchange for restoring the state\u2019s nearly $50 million dollar cut from the university system, Huddleston again pledged to freeze tuition for two years and increase student grants and scholarships to students.<\/p>\n<p>He made no mention of increasing the number of slots available for in-state students &#8212; something else the candidates for governor have proposed.<\/p>\n<p>Huddleston also discussed on the University\u2019s efforts to deliver the same quality education for less money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We\u2019re doing this in part by continuing to be frugal Yankees and cutting costs wherever and whenever possible, but more importantly we\u2019re doing it by innovating and specifically, to use a phrase from the strategic plan, by reimagining time and space.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The school launched a campaign called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unh.edu\/president\/higher-education-works-new-hampshire\">UNH Works for New Hampshire<\/a>, an effort to push Concord lawmakers to restore funding cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following was contributed by Sam Evans-Brown. This week, University of New Hampshire President Mark Huddleston\u00a0delivered\u00a0his State of the University address.\u00a0He used the speech to reiterate his call to restore the cuts to the State University funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474,53],"tags":[493,237,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}