{"id":5972,"date":"2009-04-07T08:29:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T16:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2009-04-07T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T16:30:46","slug":"canada-cash-strapped-universities-looking-at-cancelling-small-classes-programs-charging-flat-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/canada-cash-strapped-universities-looking-at-cancelling-small-classes-programs-charging-flat-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada:  Cash-strapped universities looking at cancelling small classes, programs, charging flat tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globe and Mail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globecampus.ca\/in-the-news\/article\/a-whole-new-meaning-to-cutting-classes\/\">A whole new meaning to cutting classes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cash-strapped universities looking at cancelling small classes, programs, charging flat tuition<\/p>\n<p>As the last grim signs of winter fade from Canadian campuses, the spring rite of cutting classes is taking on a whole new meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Course calendars across the country are under the microscope as universities, trying to do more with less, are taking a hard look at programs and class sizes. The end result will likely be fewer choices for undergraduates and larger classes in September &#8211; another symptom of the financial squeeze on higher education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globe and Mail: A whole new meaning to cutting classes Cash-strapped universities looking at cancelling small classes, programs, charging flat tuition As the last grim signs of winter fade from Canadian campuses, the spring rite of cutting classes is taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/canada-cash-strapped-universities-looking-at-cancelling-small-classes-programs-charging-flat-tuition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2251],"tags":[1288941,68,1288964],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budgets-funding","tag-budgets-funding","tag-canada","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5974,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/5974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}