{"id":173938,"date":"2024-06-05T19:21:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-student-leader-kicks-against-new-tuition-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T19:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:21:21","slug":"liberia-student-leader-kicks-against-new-tuition-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-student-leader-kicks-against-new-tuition-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Student Leader Kicks Against New Tuition Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em><em>Students at Tubman University reject a prepaid 40% tuition policy introduced by the administration, lamenting economic hardship.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">By Patrick N. Mensah, Maryland County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><strong><em>Maryland, Liberia, June 4, 2024 &#8211;<\/em><\/strong>Days after the administration of William V. S. Tubman University in Maryland County announced a 40% tuition policy, students are protesting the policy, which they say does not align with the current economic reality in the southeast county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The campus-based Student Unification Alliance (SUA) is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406050475.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Tubman University reject a prepaid 40% tuition policy introduced by the administration, lamenting economic hardship. By Patrick N. Mensah, Maryland County. Maryland, Liberia, June 4, 2024 &#8211;Days after the administration of William V. S. Tubman University in Maryland County announced a 40% tuition policy, students are protesting the policy, which they say does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":173939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7023,7079,4712,1107,257,6470,254,11431,14565],"class_list":["post-173938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kicks","tag-leader","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-student","tag-tuition"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}