{"id":72361,"date":"2017-05-27T20:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T02:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-raises-tuition-to-offset-enrollment-decline\/"},"modified":"2017-05-28T02:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T02:43:46","slug":"fort-lewis-college-raises-tuition-to-offset-enrollment-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-college-raises-tuition-to-offset-enrollment-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lewis College raises tuition to offset enrollment decline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2be5fb99-dfce-4db2-9a2d-029be51da041&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees approved a tuition increase Friday to help offset a decline in enrollment.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees approved a tuition increase Friday to help offset a decline in enrollment.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Alex Semadeni\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees on Friday approved a tuition increase at the college for the 2017-18 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Resident students will see a 5.7 percent increase in tuition, while non-resident undergraduate students will see a 5 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, tuition is $6,360 a year for in-state students. For the 2017-18 school year, tuition will cost $6,720. Out-of-state students currently pay $16,072 and will pay $16,872 next year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the college saw an 8.6 percent increase for resident students. This is the first increase for non-resident students since the 2009-10 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The increase comes after the board in April approved increases in fees for room and board along with mandatory and course fees.<\/p>\n<p>Room rates will increase by an average of 2 percent, and board rates will rise about 3.5 percent. The average cost for living on campus will go up from $9,790 for two semesters to $10,142.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in tuition is expected to offset an anticipated 8 percent decline in enrollment, attributable in part to higher admission standards.<\/p>\n<p>The college recently began to emphasize its STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programs in an effort to attract more students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado and out-of-state students will pay more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[155,132,28,29,93],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-fort-lewis-college","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-students"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72361"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}