{"id":20159,"date":"2011-06-13T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=20159"},"modified":"2011-06-13T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:41:51","slug":"the-true-significance-of-gainful-employment-lederman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/06\/13\/the-true-significance-of-gainful-employment-lederman\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Significance of &#8216;Gainful Employment&#8217; [Lederman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/06\/13\/explaining_the_true_significance_of_gainful_employment_rules\" target=\"_blank\">The True Significance of &#8216;Gainful Employment&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Doug Lederman<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Largely lost in the instant analyses, pro and con, though, was the  long-term significance of the department\u2019s actions. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">The \u201cgainful  employment\u201d rules, as they have come to be known, <strong>represent a powerful  and potentially game-changing shift in how the federal government looks  at higher education<\/strong>. The agency has written into federal policy, for the  first time, a direct (if crude) attempt to measure the <em>value<\/em> of  an academic program, by linking a measure of student expenditure  (student loan debt burden) with an outcome measure (graduates\u2019 average  income).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This current approach applies only to non-liberal-arts programs at  for-profit colleges and to vocational non-degree programs at public and  private nonprofit colleges &#8212; for the moment. But now that the federal  government has such a tool, many observers agree, it\u2019s hard to imagine  that it won\u2019t seek to apply it more broadly &#8212; if not this  administration or Congress, then a future one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The True Significance of &#8216;Gainful Employment&#8217; &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Doug Lederman Excerpt: Largely lost in the instant analyses, pro and con, though, was the long-term significance of the department\u2019s actions. The \u201cgainful employment\u201d rules, as they have come to be known, represent a powerful and potentially game-changing shift in how the federal government looks [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,3,285],"tags":[604,566,27],"class_list":["post-20159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-higher-education","category-legislation-legislatures","tag-assessment","tag-higher-education","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159","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=20159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20161,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159\/revisions\/20161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}