{"id":320110,"date":"2014-12-03T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320110"},"modified":"2014-12-04T02:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T08:18:02","slug":"belt-tightening-at-wiley-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320110","title":{"rendered":"Spending Cuts at Wiley College Result in Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/Wiley-College-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/Wiley-College-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Wiley College logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-320111\" \/><\/a>MARSHALL (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Wiley College in Marshall has laid off 16 employees and furloughed others as it cuts spending amid declining enrollment.   Wiley College spokeswoman Tammy Taylor tells the Longview News-Journal a primary cause of the school&#8217;s financial woes is changes to federal aid programs that have made it more difficult for students to pay tuition. As a result, Wiley has had to increase scholarships it offers.   Unmet fundraising goals also are a factor.   Enrollment hit a high of about 1,400 students two years ago but that number has fallen to around 1,350.   The historically black college gained prominence with the 2007 release of &#8220;The Great Debaters,&#8221; which chronicled the school&#8217;s 1935 debate team that prevailed over a national powerhouse at a time when the U.S. was heavily segregated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Wiley College in Marshall has laid off 16 employees and furloughed others as it cuts spending amid declining enrollment. Wiley College spokeswoman Tammy Taylor tells the Longview News-Journal a primary cause of the school&#8217;s financial woes is changes to federal aid programs that have made it more difficult for students to pay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spending Cuts at Wiley College Result in Layoffs<\/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-320110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 13:03:05","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\/320110","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=320110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320148,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320110\/revisions\/320148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}