{"id":21528,"date":"2021-01-30T20:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T01:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/?p=21528"},"modified":"2021-01-30T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T01:50:02","slug":"brookdale-will-not-increase-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/2021\/01\/30\/brookdale-will-not-increase-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"Brookdale Will Not Increase Tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u00a0Brookdale Community College will not increase tuition and fees for the next academic year.<\/h3>\n<p>According to Dr. Henry Cram, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, &#8220;the Brookdale Trustees recognize the severe and far-reaching financial hardships caused by COVID-19. \u00a0By keeping tuition and fees unchanged for this upcoming academic year, we hope to help students and families who are struggling with the cost of higher education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brookdale President David Stout, said, &#8220;this tuition freeze will help the members of our community access an affordable college education of the highest quality with well-established pathways leading to bachelors degrees and desirable careers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brookdale is the county college of Monmouth County, New Jersey \u2013 a diverse county with approximately 620,000 residents. Brookdale offers AA, AFA, AS, and AAS degrees in 68 academic programs including options, 4 Academic Credit Certificates, and 8 Academic Credit Certificates of Achievement. In addition, non-degree courses\/non-credit courses are offered through Brookdale\u2019s Office of Continuing &amp; Professional Studies. This division also provides courses that are specially tailored to meet the training needs of local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the credit and non-credit programs are offered at their centrally-located main campus in Lincroft, as well as at branch campuses in Freehold and Wall Township and regional locations in Neptune, Hazlet, and Long Branch. \u00a0Brookdale also offers online courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Brookdale Community College will not increase tuition and fees for the next academic year. According to Dr. Henry Cram, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, &#8220;the Brookdale Trustees recognize the severe and far-reaching financial hardships caused by COVID-19. \u00a0By keeping tuition and fees unchanged for this upcoming academic year, we hope to help students and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":21529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}