{"id":1377,"date":"2021-09-13T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=1377"},"modified":"2021-09-13T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:25:15","slug":"contact-your-legislator-in-support-of-usm-and-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/contact-your-legislator-in-support-of-usm-and-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact your Legislator in Support of USM and Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Quick Link for USM:<\/strong><\/em><br>Here is the link to our updated USM Government Relations Page<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmd.edu\/usm\/legislative_relations\/\">http:\/\/www.usmd.edu\/usm\/legislative_relations\/<\/a><br>\u00a0<br><strong><em>Quick Link to Locate your Legislator:<\/em><\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/usmd\/home\/\">http:\/\/capwiz.com\/usmd\/home\/<\/a><br><br>\u00a0<br>As you may know, the State of Maryland is facing a $1.7 billion structural deficit. In order to solve the problem, the Governor is looking at ways to structure a solution, which also maintains funding for areas of priority. \u00a0Higher Education in the State is in jeopardy of losing funding if his proposal fails. We have been asked to provide you with information (attached) that you can review and use as a guide to contact your legislators about this issue and we urge you to voice your support of proposals that will make sure that Higher Education funding remains a priority.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We urge you to respond today!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any questions, alumni should contact&nbsp;the Office of Alumni Affairs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">(410) 651-7686 or (410) 651-6277<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Link for USM:Here is the link to our updated USM Government Relations Pagehttp:\/\/www.usmd.edu\/usm\/legislative_relations\/\u00a0Quick Link to Locate your Legislator:http:\/\/capwiz.com\/usmd\/home\/ \u00a0As you may know, the State of Maryland is facing a $1.7 billion structural deficit. In order to solve the problem, the Governor is looking at ways to structure a solution, which also maintains funding for&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/contact-your-legislator-in-support-of-usm-and-higher-education\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Contact your Legislator in Support of USM and Higher Education<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}