{"id":24607,"date":"2011-02-18T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_university_of_the_south_slashes_tuition_cites_economy\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:00:59","slug":"wsj_university_of_the_south_slashes_tuition_cites_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24607","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) University of the South Slashes Tuition, Cites Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move likely to reverberate among America&#8217;s top-tier private colleges, the University of the South said Wednesday it will slash tuition and fees for the coming school year by 10%, or about $4,600&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If not the first, Sewanee is the largest private school to institute such price cuts in recent years, said Tony Pals, director of communications for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a bold move that will have the potential to put competitive pressure on Sewanee&#8217;s peer institutions,&#8221; said Mr. Pals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703961104576148932713863442.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move likely to reverberate among America&#8217;s top-tier private colleges, the University of the South said Wednesday it will slash tuition and fees for the coming school year by 10%, or about $4,600&#8230;. If not the first, Sewanee is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24607\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,582,149,111,66,593,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-education","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-personal-finance","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}