KILGORE \u2014 The price of higher education is getting higher for students at Kilgore College. According to KETK, students attending within the college\u2019s tax zone will see an increase of $4 per credit hour or $48 for a full semester. Students outside the area will see about a $120 increase for a full load. The school\u2019s president, Dr. Bill Holda, Says the increase will help offset money lost through state budget cuts, but the price hike could cause some collegians to re-think their plans. Holda remarks, \u201cThe students I see getting squeezed out are those who are not Pell-eligible, from middle-income families where that $120 could be the difference in them taking one course or three courses.\u201d The tuition hike starts with the fall 2012 semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KILGORE \u2014 The price of higher education is getting higher for students at Kilgore College. According to KETK, students attending within the college\u2019s tax zone will see an increase of $4 per credit hour or $48 for a full semester. Students outside the area will see about a $120 increase for a full load. The … Continue reading Tuition Hike in Store for Kilgore College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 03:57:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165153,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164815\/revisions\/165153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}