{"id":9822,"date":"2012-07-05T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2012-07-05T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T20:42:47","slug":"why-valencia-college-is-not-raising-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/05\/why-valencia-college-is-not-raising-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Valencia College Is NOT Raising Tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9826\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/07\/05\/why-valencia-college-is-not-raising-tuition\/sandy-shugart-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9826\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9826\" title=\"Sandy Shugart\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/Sandy-Shugart-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/Sandy-Shugart-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/Sandy-Shugart-620x400.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/Sandy-Shugart.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\"> <\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valencia College President Sandy Shugart says he&#39;s found ways to avoid a tuition hike this year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Rick Scott is drawing a line on tuition hikes this year. He wants state universities to find other ways to deal with budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p>At a contentious Board of Governors meeting in June,\u00a0 many universities asked for the maximum tuition increase. A few got it; most did not.<\/p>\n<p>But some colleges are heeding Scott&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>StateImpact Florida&#8217;s John O&#8217;Connor spoke to Valencia College president Sandy Shugart about why the state&#8217;s second-largest college is not raising tuition next year.<\/p>\n<p>Shugart says he doesn&#8217;t want to raise tuition too much now because he may need to raise it in the future.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9822-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/ValenciaTuition.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/ValenciaTuition.mp3\">https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/07\/ValenciaTuition.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Instead, the community college plans to raise class sizes and do other belt-tightening.<\/p>\n<p>Shugart said the college is particularly sensitive to the needs of low-income students as the hard economic times continue in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Rick Scott is drawing a line on tuition hikes this year. He wants state universities to find other ways to deal with budget cuts. At a contentious Board of Governors meeting in June,\u00a0 many universities asked for the maximum tuition increase. A few got it; most did not. But some colleges are heeding Scott&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1104,543,394],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9831,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions\/9831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}