{"id":13659,"date":"2013-02-27T14:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13659"},"modified":"2013-02-28T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:05:08","slug":"st-sen-votes-to-buyout-shirvani-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13659","title":{"rendered":"St. Sen. Votes To Buyout Shirvani Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/shirvani.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13705\" title=\"shirvani\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/shirvani-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/shirvani-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/shirvani-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/shirvani.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s Senate has reconsidered and endorsed a proposal to buy out the contract of University System Chancellor Hamid Shirvani.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Senate voted 28-19 Wednesday to provide about $854,000 to buy out the final two years of Shrivani\u2019s three-year contract.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fargo Sen. Tony Grindberg\u2019s amendment only provides funds for the buyout and does not force the Board of Higher Education to fire Shirvani.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The North Dakota Student Association expressed a vote of \u201cno confidence\u201d in Shirvani on Saturday. The Board of Higher Education issued a statement a day later, expressing support for Shirvani.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shirvani has been in charge of the university system since last July. His contract runs through June 2015. He is paid $349,000 annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s Senate has reconsidered and endorsed a proposal to buy out the contract of University System Chancellor Hamid Shirvani. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Senate voted 28-19 Wednesday to provide about $854,000 to buy out the final two years of Shrivani\u2019s three-year contract. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fargo Sen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13664,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13659\/revisions\/13664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}