{"id":4549,"date":"2012-09-26T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2012-09-27T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:27:49","slug":"higher-ed-brd-approves-tougher-entrance-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"Higher Ed. Brd. Approves Tougher Entrance Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/educationND.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4586\" title=\"educationND\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/educationND-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/educationND-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/educationND-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/educationND.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Future North Dakota college students will have to meet tougher entrance requirements.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state Board of Higher Education on Wednesday approved the more stringent standards.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Ham Shirvani says they will take full effect for students who enroll in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t apply to students who are in college now.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plan will use a formula to decide whether a student is<br \/>\neligible to go to a North Dakota college.<\/p>\n<p>It will use high school grades, course work and ACT test scores. North Dakota resident students will get a small bonus.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Board members approved the changes unanimously.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some students at Minot State University protested the change.<br \/>\nThey say some elements of the plan will raise tuition costs for<br \/>\nCanadian students, and they may enroll elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Future North Dakota college students will have to meet tougher entrance requirements. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state Board of Higher Education on Wednesday approved the more stringent standards. Chancellor Ham Shirvani says they will take full effect for students who enroll in 2015. They won&#8217;t apply to students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}