{"id":27559,"date":"2012-03-07T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=27559"},"modified":"2012-03-07T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T14:28:40","slug":"college-presidents-say-10000-degrees-available-now-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/03\/07\/college-presidents-say-10000-degrees-available-now-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"College presidents say $10,000 degrees available now [Hamilton]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/texas-education\/higher-education\/college-presidents-say-10000-degrees-available-now\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>College presidents say $10,000 degrees available now<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from texastribune.org by Reeve Hamilton<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Called &#8220;The Evolving Role of University Systems in Higher Education,&#8221; today&#8217;s panel mostly focused on efforts to lower the cost of college. It was moderated by Texas A&amp;M System Chancellor John Sharp and featured Heldenfels, Texas Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes, and two pairs of university and community college leaders actively collaborating: Texas A&amp;M-San Antonio President Maria Ferrar and Alamo Colleges Chancellor Bruce Leslie, and Texas A&amp;M-Commerce President Dan Jones and South Texas College&#8217;s Chief Academic Officer Juan Mejia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Leslie said that Perry&#8217;s push has led to an increased emphasis on cooperation between community colleges and four-year universities. The result, he said, is a degree that meets Perry&#8217;s target \u2014 and is even less expensive. At Texas A&amp;M-San Antonio, Ferrar said, a bachelor&#8217;s in information technology with an emphasis on cyber security will cost about $9,700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College presidents say $10,000 degrees available now &#8212; from texastribune.org by Reeve Hamilton Excerpt: Called &#8220;The Evolving Role of University Systems in Higher Education,&#8221; today&#8217;s panel mostly focused on efforts to lower the cost of college. It was moderated by Texas A&amp;M System Chancellor John Sharp and featured Heldenfels, Texas Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes, [&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":[86,209,302,57,159,72,36,3,180,66,321,214],"tags":[52,614,303,290,606,586,566,661,607,251,579,603,728,679,572],"class_list":["post-27559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-future-of-higher-education","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities","tag-budgetary","tag-change","tag-community-college","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-higher-education","tag-innovation","tag-leadership","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-strategy","tag-student-related","tag-united-states","tag-universities","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559","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=27559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27563,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions\/27563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}