{"id":390,"date":"2020-02-03T16:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/?p=390"},"modified":"2020-05-01T16:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:37:01","slug":"december-2019-january-2020-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/2020\/02\/december-2019-january-2020-report\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2019 \/ January 2020 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miami University Government Relations Network<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 3, President Crawford, Director of Institutional Relations Randi Malcolm Thomas, Esq., and students Collin Finn and Taylor Armstrong traveled to Portsmouth to visit Shawnee State University to tour the Kricker Innovation Hub and connect with local business owners. 
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Collin Finn, Taylor Armstrong, and Director Randi Malcolm Thomas, Esq. stand in front of one of Portsmouth\u2019s famous floodwall murals.
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Miami University students, along with Director Randi Thomas and Dean of Libraries Jerome Conley visited the nation\u2019s capitol on December 19 to update legislators and staff on Miami\u2019s commitment to quality education. Topics of discussion included Miami\u2019s Work+ program, and the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship\u2019s impressive ranking in the Princeton Review. Also discussed was Miami\u2019s impressive ranking for return on investment by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, in which Miami\u2019s Oxford, Hamilton, and Middletown campuses occupied the top three rankings in the State of Ohio. 
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Miami University Students meet with Congressman Brad Wenstrup during the December fly-in.
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On January 8, President Greg Crawford and Director Thomas participated in a conference call with Jobs Ohio regarding the Elm Street project, which will be a TECH Innovation Hub. The two then traveled to the Ohio Governor\u2019s Mansion on January 10 to visit with Governor Mike DeWine \u201869 to discuss collaboration to advance Ohio and its economy with talent and creative ideas.
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President Greg Crawford, Laurel Dawson, Gov. Mike DeWine, and Director Randi Malcolm Thomas, Esq. meet at the Ohio Governor\u2019s Mansion.
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President Crawford and Director Thomas visited the nation\u2019s capitol on January 15, talking with legislators, staff, and the House Small Business Committee about Miami\u2019s plans to build a new TECH Innovation Hub. They discussed the university\u2019s role in innovation and strategies with businesses for economic development with urban and rural revitalization. They also visited with CBS News Chief Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues \u201892.
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CBS Chief Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Jeff Pegues \u201892 meets with Director Randi Malcolm Thomas, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legislation Tracking
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Bill <\/td>Summary\/Title <\/td>Last Action<\/td>Sponsors <\/td><\/tr>
HB310<\/a><\/td>Greek Life Anti-Bullying and Hazing Act <\/td>9\/24\/19Referred to House Primary & Secondary Education Committee<\/td>Greenspan (R)<\/td><\/tr>
HB194<\/a>\/SB111<\/a><\/td>Legalize\/Regulate sports gaming\/taxing sports gaming business (college sports betting)<\/td>4\/10\/19Referred to House Finance Committee <\/td>Greenspan (R) and Kelly (D) <\/td><\/tr>
SB181<\/a><\/td>Work +, Template for workforce education partnership program<\/td>11\/12\/19Passed Senate, Introduced in House <\/td>Coley (R)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami University Government Relations Network On December 3, President Crawford, Director of Institutional Relations Randi Malcolm Thomas, Esq., and students Collin Finn and Taylor Armstrong traveled to Portsmouth to visit Shawnee State University to tour the Kricker Innovation Hub and connect with local business owners.  Collin Finn, Taylor Armstrong, and Director Randi Malcolm Thomas, Esq. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/grn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}