{"id":6019,"date":"2013-11-06T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2013-11-06T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:48:49","slug":"committee-to-hold-informational-hearing-on-flex-option-degree-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6019","title":{"rendered":"Committee to Hold Informational Hearing on Flex Option Degree Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.legis.wi.gov\/raw\/cid\/999798\">will hold<\/a> an informational hearing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/flex.wisconsin.edu\/\">University of Wisconsin Flexible Option<\/a> at 2 pm today. The hearing will be held in Room 411 South in the State Capitol and is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>UW System&#8217;s Flexible Option <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=4262\">was announced<\/a> in 2012, and enrollment in the program is scheduled to begin later this month. Flexible Option is a partnership between UW System campuses and UW Extension. Work toward degrees will be self-paced with an outcome of a competency-based certificate or degree. UW-Milwaukee and UW Colleges are the first institutions to offer the Flexible Option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges will hold an informational hearing on the University of Wisconsin Flexible Option at 2 pm today. The hearing will be held in Room 411 South in the State Capitol and is open&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6019\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[69,18,137],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw-system","tag-flexible-degrees","tag-legislature","tag-uw-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}