{"id":48817,"date":"2014-06-27T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=48817"},"modified":"2014-06-27T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T21:52:04","slug":"higher-ed-brd-approves-budget-tuition-freeze-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=48817","title":{"rendered":"Higher Ed Approves Budget, Tuition Freeze Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The North Dakota Board of Higher Education has approved its biennial budget request that asks for a nearly 14 percent increase in funding and freeze tuition at the state\u2019s 11 colleges and universities from 2015 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Board says it will freeze tuition for the next two-year cycle if the state agrees to fully fund the salary and benefit increases. The board added the tuition freeze and asked for $9.5 million more a few days before Thursday\u2019s meeting in Grand Forks.<\/p>\n<p>A large part of the almost $774 million base budget request comes from the implementation of a new higher education funding model. The model funds schools based on the number of credits completed and calls for $49 million more in operating funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The North Dakota Board of Higher Education has approved its biennial budget request that asks for a nearly 14 percent increase in funding and freeze tuition at the state\u2019s 11 colleges and universities from 2015 to 2017. The Board says it will freeze tuition for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48817","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=48817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48879,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48817\/revisions\/48879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}