{"id":6340,"date":"2014-03-04T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T19:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2014-03-04T13:18:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T19:18:14","slug":"senate-committee-to-discuss-bill-allowing-classified-research-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6340","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee to Discuss Bill Allowing Classified Research on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.legis.wi.gov\/raw\/cid\/1023433\">will meet<\/a> at 11 am tomorrow, Wednesday, March 5 in Room 400 Southeast of the State Capitol to discuss legislation (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/proposals\/sb578\">SB 578<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/proposals\/ab729\">AB 729<\/a>) that would allow classified research on University of Wisconsin System campuses.\u00a0A UW System <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsa.edu\/fadmin\/gapp\/gapp2.htm\">administrative policy<\/a> currently prohibits such research.<\/p>\n<p>The original bills included language that would allow exemptions to the state&#8217;s open records law, but that language\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6304\">was removed<\/a> after Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee Chair Representative Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater) said he would not schedule a vote on proposal if it included the exemption. The open records provision was removed and an amended version of AB 729 passed the Assembly on February 20.<\/p>\n<p>PROFS worked with the authors of the legislation and <a href=\"https:\/\/lobbying.wi.gov\/What\/BillInformation\/2013REG\/Information\/11141\">is registered<\/a> in support of the bill. PROFS supports the legislation because it <a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6283\">ensures<\/a> faculty will have a say in any decisions regarding classified research on campus and some faculty have expressed interest in doing classified research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges will meet at 11 am tomorrow, Wednesday, March 5 in Room 400 Southeast of the State Capitol to discuss legislation (SB 578 and AB 729) that would allow classified research on University&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6340\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,17],"tags":[107,8,137],"class_list":["post-6340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-classified-research","tag-legislation","tag-uw-system","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340","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=6340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6344,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6340\/revisions\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}