{"500941":{"#nid":"500941","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Seminar Series Designed to \u2018Inform Tech\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe Georgia Tech Staff Council is hosting a new series to help make sense of some of the complicated operations of an institute of higher education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EThe first in the Inform Georgia Tech Series will focus on budgets and financing with guest Jim Kirk, executive director of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.budgets.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute Budget Planning and Administration\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EAt \u201cColors of Tech Money,\u201d Kirk will discuss Tech\u2019s budget and revenue sources, how the budget is formed and allocated, and why different funding sources are needed for various expenses. The event takes place Feb. 23 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Clary Theatre, Bill Moore Student Success Center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EThe series is planned to be quarterly. Future topics will include campus space planning and higher education legislative issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cWe believe that faculty, staff, students, and the overall community will be very interested to learn more about these topics, and to have the opportunity to ask questions of key leaders,\u201d said Rick Clark, who served as 2015 chair of the Staff Council.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003EEmployees are also encouraged to submit ideas or suggestions for future sessions. Submit ideas at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.staffcouncil.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ewww.staffcouncil.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EThe first in the Inform Georgia Tech Series will focus on budgets and financing with guest Jim Kirk, executive director of Institute Budget and Planning Administration.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The first in the Inform Georgia Tech Series will focus on budgets and financing with guest Jim Kirk, executive director of Institute Budget and Planning Administration."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2016-02-16 12:01:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:42","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-02-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-02-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"500931":{"id":"500931","type":"image","title":"Colors of Tech Money","body":null,"created":"1455904800","gmt_created":"2016-02-19 18:00:00","changed":"1475895261","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:21","alt":"Colors of Tech Money","file":{"fid":"204712","name":"session_1_kirk.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/session_1_kirk_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/session_1_kirk_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1076707,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/session_1_kirk_0.jpg?itok=xBdOp2B6"}},"326941":{"id":"326941","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Staff Council","body":null,"created":"1449245041","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:04:01","changed":"1475895037","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:37","alt":"Georgia Tech Staff Council","file":{"fid":"200240","name":"staffcouncil.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/staffcouncil.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/staffcouncil.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":213045,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/staffcouncil.jpg?itok=nOnSeNj3"}}},"media_ids":["500931","326941"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/staffcouncil.gatech.edu\/","title":"Staff Council"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.budgets.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institute Budget Planning and Administration"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11589","name":"budgets"},{"id":"3423","name":"employees"},{"id":"4175","name":"finance"},{"id":"171713","name":"inform tech"},{"id":"167004","name":"staff council"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:debbie.dorsey@vpss.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDebbie Dorsey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Staff Council\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}