{"id":10818,"date":"2010-10-22T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2010-10-22T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:23:19","slug":"welcome-now-start-slashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/22\/welcome-now-start-slashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, now start slashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/10\/22\/provosts\" target=\"_blank\">Welcome, now start slashing<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Jack Stripling<br \/>\n<em>Hiring provosts who will be immediately charged with budget-cutting presents  dilemma for presidents, who debate whether task is best suited for someone new.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The economic downturn presents a stark dilemma for colleges and  universities seeking provosts, and presidents are somewhat split on  whether to move forward. On the one hand, bringing in someone with fresh  eyes who\u2019s not attached to any sacred cows on campus makes sense. On  the other hand, thrusting new chief academic officers into situations  where they may be immediately tasked with cutting programs, increasing  workloads or laying off employees sounds to some like a recipe for  burnout or failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome, now start slashing &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Jack Stripling Hiring provosts who will be immediately charged with budget-cutting presents dilemma for presidents, who debate whether task is best suited for someone new. The economic downturn presents a stark dilemma for colleges and universities seeking provosts, and presidents are somewhat split on whether to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,3,74,20],"tags":[566,607,579],"class_list":["post-10818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-strategy","tag-higher-education","tag-leadership","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10820,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions\/10820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}