Tagged - meal plan

As students struggle with the challenge of paying such incredible sums of money to get their degree, one large contributing factor is the exorbitant cost of college meal plans. These plans, once a simple solution for the inevitable inconvenience of cooking on-campus, have quietly become a large revenue stream for educational institutions and their dining service providers.  Read More

With campus dining options such as Blue Cactus not accepting meal swipes and the Pit only accepting them at certain times, the University has rolled out a new dining plan option, the Flex Plan, to help bridge the gap between meal swipes and Dining Dollars. Read More

At my home university, and at most universities in the U.K., we have to cook for ourselves because we have access to kitchens that are more than tiny boxes with tiny ovens and stovetops. Read More

For these fraternities, members living on the fraternity quad were automatically opted into the fraternity dining plan, which covered the cost of all meals offered by designated in-house chefs. However,  the remaining staffed kitchens on the UR Fraternity Quad began to be decommissioned July 1.  Read More

Although these new currencies are nearly identical to their former counterparts, Rocky Bucks will be accepted by many more vendors than before, including off-campus. Read More

When it comes to the excess of declining dollars each semester, the money just doesn’t feel real. Read More