{"id":35363,"date":"2012-12-13T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=35363"},"modified":"2012-12-14T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T18:36:43","slug":"higher-educations-perfect-storm-viewed-from-another-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/12\/13\/higher-educations-perfect-storm-viewed-from-another-angle\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher education&#8217;s perfect storm &#8212; viewed from other angles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/parthenon.com\/GetFile.aspx?u=\/Lists\/Events\/Attachments\/62\/121128_BHEIC%2520presentation_v5-WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35364\" alt=\"Higher education and the fiscal threat -- from The Parthenon Group - November 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HE-FiscalThreat-ParthenonGroup-Nov2012.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"566\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HE-FiscalThreat-ParthenonGroup-Nov2012.jpg 530w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HE-FiscalThreat-ParthenonGroup-Nov2012-140x150.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendum on 12\/14\/12:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/big-construction-costs-mooc-disruption-mean-ominous-cocktail-for-higher-ed\/82158\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big construction costs, MOOC disruption mean ominous cocktail for higher ed<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from educationdive.com by Davide Savenije<br \/>\n<strong>Dive Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After years of aggressive expansion efforts, higher education is facing the consequences\u00a0\u2014 according to Moody&#8217;s, overall debt levels for rated institutions more than doubled from 2000 to 2011 while donations and investments shrank by more than 40% relative to the debt.<\/li>\n<li>While debt has swiftly reached a tipping point for universities, they are not alone \u2014 \u00a0the total amount of student debt currently exceeds $1 trillion and nearly one in every six borrowers&#8217; student loan balance is in default.<\/li>\n<li>Experts and school officials are predicting an imminent reshaping of the field of higher education\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Harvard&#8217;s annual fiscal report claims &#8220;the need for change is clear&#8221; as institutions face a decreased &#8220;ability to generate [&#8230;] new resources&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>As prospective students become aware of the decreasing value of the higher ed degree, the sudden emergence of MOOCs\u00a0are becoming an increasingly viable and economically-friendly alternative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> <strong> We had better step up the pace of innovating\/experimenting &#8211; and move to do so quickly. But the problem is, moving quickly is not in the cultures of most of the more traditional institutions of higher education.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also relevant:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Some-Say-Its-Time-to-Put-a\/136217\/As\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>As debt rises and job prospects dim, some say it&#8217;s time to put a warning label on graduate school<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The Chronicle by Stacey Patton<br \/>\n<em>This isn&#8217;t just the year of the massive open online course; it&#8217;s also the year of two other hot topics in higher education\u2014student debt and a barren job market for graduating students.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Addendum on 12\/14\/12: Big construction costs, MOOC disruption mean ominous cocktail for higher ed &#8212; from educationdive.com by Davide Savenije Dive Summary: After years of aggressive expansion efforts, higher education is facing the consequences\u00a0\u2014 according to Moody&#8217;s, overall debt levels for rated institutions more than doubled from 2000 to 2011 while donations and investments [&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":[61,159,72,143,533,35,285,239,436,310,212],"tags":[52,600,290,213,653,606,641,808,251,637,779,722,579],"class_list":["post-35363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-disruption","category-experimentation","category-game-changing-environment","category-legislation-legislatures","category-new-business-models","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving","tag-budgetary","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-culture","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-disruption","tag-experimentation","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-perfect-storm","tag-reinvent","tag-staying-relevant","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35363","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=35363"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35370,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35363\/revisions\/35370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}