{"id":449,"date":"2017-01-23T16:19:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=449"},"modified":"2017-01-23T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:19:33","slug":"cost-of-campus-meal-plans-continues-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/23\/cost-of-campus-meal-plans-continues-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Campus Meal Plans Continues to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-450\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-450\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dining-hall.jpg\" alt=\"iStock\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dining-hall.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/dining-hall-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The price of college meal plans continues to grow <strong>\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0and it\u2019s contributing to the rising costs of higher education, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/tough-swallow-reason-college-keeps-costing-price-meal-plans\/\">an article published this month in <em>The Hechinger Report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A recent analysis of college dining contracts show that the amount of money students spend on meal plans outpaces what the average American shells out for food each year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is at least in part because, with states cutting their higher-education budgets and families chafing at continuing tuition hikes, universities and colleges can make money from their meal plans,\u201d reporter Tara Garc\u00eda Mathewson noted.<\/p>\n<p>She later added: \u201cFor many students, however, more expensive meal plans mean more borrowing and tough decisions about whether to trade convenience for cheaper living off campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/tough-swallow-reason-college-keeps-costing-price-meal-plans\/\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of college meal plans continues to grow \u2014\u00a0and it\u2019s contributing to the rising costs of higher education, according to an article published this month in The Hechinger Report. A recent analysis of college dining contracts show that the amount of money students spend on meal plans outpaces what the average American shells out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/01\/23\/cost-of-campus-meal-plans-continues-to-grow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cost of Campus Meal Plans Continues to Grow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[10],"tags":[241,242],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","tag-college-meal-plans","tag-cost-of-attendance"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-7f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}