{"id":612873,"date":"2009-12-22T12:26:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"2144"},"modified":"2009-12-22T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T17:26:27","slug":"financial-aid-need-up-20-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/612873","title":{"rendered":"Financial aid need up 20 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN class=heading2>Published Dec. 17, 2009<BR><\/SPAN>By Lena Vargas, KEPR TV<\/P><P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.keprtv.com\/news\/local\/79582337.html\" ><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" style=\"MARGIN: 5px 5px 5px 0px\" height=\"28\" alt=\"Play Video\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.columbiabasin.edu\/images\/1532462192007image_video.jpg?resize=95%2C28\" width=\"95\" align=left border=0><\/A><BR><BR><BR>PASCO&#8211;More people are going back to school and that means competition for financial aid is big.<\/P><P>Nationwide a growing number of non-traditional students are filling campuses and filling financial aid offices.<\/P><P>Ceci Ratliff with CBC\u0092s Financial Aid Office says it\u0092s seen a twenty percent increase in the number of students who need financial aid.<\/P><P>&#8220;A lot of the people who have just now completed files have been at cbc in the past, so that tells me they might have stopped out, found themselves without a job,\u0094 said Ratcliff.<\/P><P>Students have to compete with whatever dollars are left. This is a year when the state has cut 14 percent of the school&#8217;s funding, with more cuts possible next year.<\/P><P>It\u0092s something high school seniors need to consider now. Ratcliff recommends they apply for the FAFSA as soon as it comes out online on January 1st.<\/P><P>The financial aid office has so much extra work it has had to close Thursdays and Fridays to catch up with the back log of financial aid applications.<\/P><P>For students, it means fewer office hours and fewer programs.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published Dec. 17, 2009By Lena Vargas, KEPR TVPASCO&#8211;More people are going back to school and that means competition for financial aid is big.Nationwide a growing number of non-traditional students are filling campuses and filling financial aid offices.Ceci Ratliff with CBC\u0092s Financial Aid Office says it\u0092s seen a twenty percent increase in the number of students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zr3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}