{"id":703698,"date":"2010-03-29T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cash-starved-university-of-colorado-just-passed-a-major-tuition-hike-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-29T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:15:00","slug":"cash-starved-university-of-colorado-just-passed-a-monster-tuition-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703698","title":{"rendered":"Cash-Starved University Of Colorado Just Passed A Monster Tuition Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4af884ba0000000000d64d8b\/boulder-co.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"boulder, co\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colorado is the latest state to recognize college students as an easy target for raising revenue.<\/p>\n<p>University of Colorado Regents passed a 9% hike in tuition for next year, amounting to a $572 per-student increase. But it&#8217;s the fourth Colorado tuition hike in four years, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_14779153\"><em>The Denver Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The state is cutting $623 million from higher education, trying to close a $1.3 billion budget gap.<\/p>\n<p>The question is how far can they push students before setting off riots, as were seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/rally-turns-violent-as-california-protests-education-budget-cuts-2010-2\">last month at UC Berkeley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/cash-starved-university-of-colorado-just-passed-a-major-tuition-hike-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/no-school-today-in-california-2010-3\">No School Today In California!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/n3w3WY0f_h8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado is the latest state to recognize college students as an easy target for raising revenue. University of Colorado Regents passed a 9% hike in tuition for next year, amounting to a $572 per-student increase. But it&#8217;s the fourth Colorado tuition hike in four years, according to The Denver Post. The state is cutting $623 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-703698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2X3Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703698","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=703698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}