{"id":7721,"date":"2016-02-16T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2016-02-16T10:32:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:32:50","slug":"profs-statement-on-college-affordability-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7721","title":{"rendered":"PROFS Statement on College Affordability Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Assembly is scheduled to vote today\u00a0on a package of bills designed to improve college affordability. The bills were <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/education\/university\/scott-walker-package-of-bills-will-make-college-more-affordable\/article_640430a4-69bf-5bc1-bf06-a87b83229eef.html\">announced<\/a> by Governor Scott Walker and quickly approved by the Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee last month. The\u00a0bills have widespread Republican support, but Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/education\/university\/gop-college-affordability-bills-headed-for-vote-in-assembly-with\/article_b46227ad-e527-5108-b0ff-7900cfaab813.html\">said<\/a> lower-than-expected tax revenues may pare back funding for the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>While PROFS is pleased the governor and legislative leaders are discussing college affordability we strongly believe renewing the state&#8217;s commitment to public higher education is the most effective way to keep college costs down.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\"><div class=\"ead-document\" style=\"position: relative;padding-top: 90%;\"><div class=\"ead-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fprofs.wisc.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F02%2FPROFS-Statement-on-College-Affordability-Package.pdf&amp;embedded=true&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Embedded Document\" class=\"ead-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%;border: none;position: absolute;left: 0;top: 0;visibility: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-loading\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:10;\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-main\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/loading.svg\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" alt=\"Loader\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Loading...<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/EAD-logo.svg\" alt=\"EAD Logo\" width=\"36\" height=\"23\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Taking too long?<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-btn ead-reload-btn\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/reload.svg\" alt=\"Reload\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Reload document\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PROFS-Statement-on-College-Affordability-Package.pdf\" class=\"ead-document-btn\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/open.svg\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Open in new tab\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><p class=\"embed_download\"><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/PROFS-Statement-on-College-Affordability-Package.pdf\" download>Download <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Assembly is scheduled to vote today\u00a0on a package of bills designed to improve college affordability. 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The\u00a0bills have widespread&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7721\">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":[142,8,18],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","category-uw","category-uw-system","tag-college-affordability","tag-legislation","tag-legislature","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","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=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7726,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}