{"id":20199,"date":"2013-06-03T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20199"},"modified":"2013-06-03T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:33:37","slug":"state-brd-higher-ed-buys-out-shirvani-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20199","title":{"rendered":"State Brd., Higher Ed. Buys Out Shirvani Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/shirvani.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13705\" alt=\"shirvani\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/shirvani-300x202.png\" 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>MEDORA, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The state Board of Higher Education is buying out the contract of University System Chancellor Hamid Shirvani.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The board voted Monday to release Shirvani from his three-year deal, which he signed more than a year ago. Terms of the buyout were not announced.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The board made the move after meeting in executive session in Medora, where the group is holding its annual retreat.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shirvani has been blasted by some students, faculty and lawmaker for his management style. Shirvaniers says he was given a mandate to overhaul the higher education system and fix problems, including low graduation rates<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Board president Duaine Espegard says Shirvani felt he had accomplished as much as he could, and asked the board to release him from his contract so he \u201ccould move on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MEDORA, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The state Board of Higher Education is buying out the contract of University System Chancellor Hamid Shirvani. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The board voted Monday to release Shirvani from his three-year deal, which he signed more than a year ago. Terms of the buyout were not announced. \u00a0 [&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-20199","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\/20199","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=20199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20202,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions\/20202"}],"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=20199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}