{"id":444,"date":"2019-10-05T07:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=444"},"modified":"2019-10-05T07:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:46:19","slug":"university-of-alberta-vice-president-resigns-over-seemingly-pro-climate-change-billboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/10\/05\/university-of-alberta-vice-president-resigns-over-seemingly-pro-climate-change-billboards\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Alberta vice-president resigns over seemingly pro-climate change billboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-05-at-8.24.08-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-445\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-05-at-8.24.08-AM-1024x996.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-05-at-8.24.08-AM-1024x996.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-05-at-8.24.08-AM-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-05-at-8.24.08-AM-768x747.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-05-at-8.24.08-AM.png 1538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Alberta&#8217;s vice-president of university relations has resigned over the school&#8217;s &#8220;beefier barley&#8221; billboards, which were slammed as promoting climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The messaging on the ad called the reputation of the University of Alberta and its extensive research on climate change into question,&#8221; vice-president of university relations Jacqui Tam said in an announcement posted Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Vice-President (University Relations), I apologize for this and take responsibility. In the best interests of the institution, I am announcing my departure from the University of Alberta, effective immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/university-of-alberta-vice-president-resigns-billboards-1.5302308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more:\u00a0University of Alberta vice-president resigns over &#8216;beefier barley&#8217; billboards<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Alberta&#8217;s vice-president of university relations has resigned over the school&#8217;s &#8220;beefier barley&#8221; billboards, which were slammed as promoting climate change. &#8220;The messaging on the ad called the reputation of the University of Alberta and its extensive research <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/10\/05\/university-of-alberta-vice-president-resigns-over-seemingly-pro-climate-change-billboards\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}