{"id":970,"date":"2012-12-28T09:07:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=970"},"modified":"2012-12-28T09:07:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:07:51","slug":"iowa-makes-more-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Makes More History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that our neighbor to the west has set out to be the new liberal mecca of the Midwest? First, same-sex marriage. Now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\">University of Iowa<\/a> has made the groundbreaking change to their admissions application to include specific questions about sexual orientation and gender identity. This makes the university the first public institution to do so, as Elmhurst College in Illinois <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/2011\/lgbt-issues\/lgbt-yes-or-no\/\">started the trend last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, Wisconsin. Looks like you&#8217;ve got some work to do.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/U-of-Iowa-Will-Ask-Applicants\/136269\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dyp5bue\">Campus Pride<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Cindy for the story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that our neighbor to the west has set out to be the new liberal mecca of the Midwest? First, same-sex marriage. Now, the University of Iowa has made the groundbreaking change to their admissions application to include specific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-wrap-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}