{"id":543,"date":"2013-09-05T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/Insights\/?p=543"},"modified":"2013-09-05T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T18:20:46","slug":"cost-vs-price-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/cost-vs-price-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost vs. Price of Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/Insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/budget.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/Insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/budget-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"budget\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/budget-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/budget.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe affordability of higher education is central to our planning efforts. Often there is confusion between the cost of a university education and its price. The \u201ccost\u201d is the expense we must pay to provide students with courses and a suitable learning environment. \u201cPrice\u201d is what a student must pay in tuition and fees to earn his\/her degree.<\/p>\n<p>For many institutions of higher education, the price is rising because the costs are rising. The good news is that WSU per-student costs have actually decreased over the last decade when controlled for inflation. In fact, our per-student expenses in adjusted dollars decreased nine percent, from $7,993 in 2002 to $7,255 in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The affordability of higher education is central to our planning efforts. Often there is confusion between the cost of a university education and its price. The \u201ccost\u201d is the expense we must pay to provide students with courses and a suitable learning environment. \u201cPrice\u201d is what a student must pay in tuition and fees to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,19,8,7,6],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-affordability","tag-decreased","tag-president-scott-r-olson","tag-winona-state-university","tag-wsu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/09\/budget.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}