{"id":26293,"date":"2020-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-halves-housing-meal-costs-for-summer-semester\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:34:38","slug":"tarleton-halves-housing-meal-costs-for-summer-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-halves-housing-meal-costs-for-summer-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton halves housing, meal costs for summer semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>Friday, May 15, 2020<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash; To address the financial impact caused by the coronavirus, Tarleton State University is cutting summer housing and meal plan costs in half. Students enrolled for the summer semester will pay less than $1,000 for residential housing, and a plan that provides three meals daily Monday-Friday will cost less than $700.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So many of our students and their families have lost jobs or had their income significantly reduced over the last several months,&rdquo; said Dr. Kelli Styron, vice president for student affairs. &ldquo;We want to do everything we can to ensure Tarleton Texans successfully complete their degree despite the challenges of covid-19. We have to believe reducing the cost of room and board is good news in these profoundly unsettling times.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Students can apply for reduced summer housing and meal plans by logging in to Duck Trax through My Gateway and clicking on the housing link. Rates for students already assigned to residential housing will be adjusted.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call 254-968-9083.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&rsquo;s scholars into tomorrow&rsquo;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To address the financial impact caused by the coronavirus, Tarleton State University is cutting summer housing and meal plan costs in half.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,425,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-campus-community","category-science-health"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-427-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/campus-community\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/science-health\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Science &amp; Health<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Science &amp; Health<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 15, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 15, 2020 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:34 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University water tower at sunset.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54108,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions\/54108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}