{"id":201615,"date":"2025-07-04T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rep-rugie-barry-proposes-12m-boost-to-rescue-university-of-liberia-from-collapse\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:50:57","slug":"liberia-rep-rugie-barry-proposes-12m-boost-to-rescue-university-of-liberia-from-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-rep-rugie-barry-proposes-12m-boost-to-rescue-university-of-liberia-from-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Rep. Rugie Barry Proposes $12m Boost to Rescue University of Liberia From Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">&#8211; With buildings crumbling and students risking their lives daily to get to class, Montserrado County District #1 Representative Rugie Barry is calling on the House of Representatives to urgently increase the University of Liberia&#8217;s (UL) budget by $12 million, warning that the country&#8217;s flagship public university is teetering on the brink of collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">In a communication to the House&#8217;s plenary Tuesday, Barry proposed raising UL&#8217;s annual allocation from US$33 million to US$45 million, citing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507030678.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>&#8211; With buildings crumbling and students risking their lives daily to get to class, Montserrado County District #1 Representative Rugie Barry is calling on the House of Representatives to urgently increase the University of Liberia&#8217;s (UL) budget by $12 million, warning that the country&#8217;s flagship public university is teetering on the brink of collapse. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[20363,258,256,29721,6557,9952,4712,1107,257,7995,10554,10904,51798,254,5148],"class_list":["post-201615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-12m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barry","tag-boost","tag-collapse","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-proposes","tag-rep","tag-rescue","tag-rugie","tag-south-africa-today","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/201615","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=201615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}