{"id":37575,"date":"2013-02-13T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=37575"},"modified":"2013-02-13T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T19:24:10","slug":"the-college-scorecard-as-mentioned-in-last-nights-state-of-the-union-address-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/02\/13\/the-college-scorecard-as-mentioned-in-last-nights-state-of-the-union-address-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"The College Scorecard &#8212; as mentioned in last night&#8217;s State of the Union Address &#8212; is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The College Scorecard -- as mentioned in the 2-12-13 State of the Union Address -- is now available\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/education\/higher-education\/college-score-card\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37574\" alt=\"CollegeScorecard-2-13-13\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CollegeScorecard-2-13-13.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CollegeScorecard-2-13-13.jpg 765w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CollegeScorecard-2-13-13-110x150.jpg 110w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CollegeScorecard-2-13-13-753x1024.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/02\/13\/obama-calls-more-attention-price-value-accreditation-state-union\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>On notice, again <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from insidehighered.com by Libby A. Nelson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC)<\/span>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">WASHINGTON &#8212; President Obama on Tuesday night called for <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>major changes<\/strong> <\/span>to the criteria <span style=\"color: #800000;\">accreditors<\/span> use to evaluate colleges,<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> asking Congress to either require accreditors to take college prices and educational value into account or to create an alternative system based on \u201cperformance and results.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Either could mark a significant shift in how the federal government judges higher education quality and eligibility for financial aid programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This speaks directly to higher ed&#8217;s ability &#8212; or inability &#8212; to stay relevant, be responsive, and to reinvent itself.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Accreditation teams should include many others who do not work for &#8212; nor are in any way connected to &#8212; a current institution of higher education.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If higher ed can&#8217;t respond, the conversation will continue to move away from traditional pathways\/institutions and people will find their own ways of getting ahead\/surviving.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Also see: On notice, again &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Libby A. Nelson Excerpt (emphasis DSC): WASHINGTON &#8212; President Obama on Tuesday night called for major changes to the criteria accreditors use to evaluate colleges, asking Congress to either require accreditors to take college prices and educational value into account or to create an alternative [&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":[415,115,302,57,324,36,3,436,310,212,214],"tags":[768,628,303,810,586,566,27,779,722,678,679],"class_list":["post-37575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accreditation","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-curriculum","category-future-of-higher-education","category-higher-education","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving","category-universities","tag-accreditation","tag-colleges","tag-community-college","tag-etmooc","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-higher-education","tag-legislation","tag-reinvent","tag-staying-relevant","tag-surviving","tag-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37575","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=37575"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37585,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37575\/revisions\/37585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}