{"id":47651,"date":"2014-10-16T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T14:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=47651"},"modified":"2014-10-16T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:00:51","slug":"15-calif-community-colleges-to-offer-bachelor-degrees-plantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/10\/16\/15-calif-community-colleges-to-offer-bachelor-degrees-plantz\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;15 Calif. community colleges to offer bachelor degrees&#8221; [Plantz]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/college.usatoday.com\/2014\/10\/08\/15-calif-community-colleges-to-offer-bachelor-degrees\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>15 Calif. community colleges to offer bachelor degrees<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from usatoday.com by Kyle Plantz<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Paving the way for one of the largest community college systems in the United States to offer four-year degrees, on Sept. 28 California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will create a pilot program for 15 community colleges across the state to fill a growing workforce demand for college-educated, skilled workers in fields such as health, science and technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/content\/community-colleges-increasingly-adding-bachelors-degrees_15514\/#.VDcb-AAnLQA.twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Community colleges increasingly adding bachelor\u2019s degrees<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport.org b<span class=\"author \">y Jon Marcus<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nIt\u2019s St. Petersburg College, formerly St. Petersburg Junior College, one of an increasing number of community colleges around the country that have started offering four-year bachelor\u2019s degrees in fields for which there is high job demand.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I put a similar item out there on Twitter about this same topic and someone came back with some verbiage that hit me as strange&#8230;it caught me off guard.\u00a0 She mentioned the word &#8220;war&#8221; between community colleges and other colleges\/universities.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the word I would use and I think the greater concern for those of us working within higher education might be the dynamics as found in <a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/10\/13\/2-recent-examples-of-companies-creating-their-own-academiesschools\/\" target=\"_blank\">this recent posting<\/a>. That&#8217;s what higher ed should be far more concerned with &#8212; i.e. <strong><em>alternatives that keep developing<\/em><\/strong> because higher ed is too slow to respond to increasing costs and is not keeping up with a world that&#8217;s spinning at speeds that continue to change exponentially, not incrementally.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\">\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45985\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ExponentialNotLinearSparksNHoney-Spring2013.jpg\" alt=\"ExponentialNotLinearSparksNHoney-Spring2013\" width=\"466\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ExponentialNotLinearSparksNHoney-Spring2013.jpg 466w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ExponentialNotLinearSparksNHoney-Spring2013-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Calif. community colleges to offer bachelor degrees &#8212; from usatoday.com by Kyle Plantz Excerpt: Paving the way for one of the largest community college systems in the United States to offer four-year degrees, on Sept. 28 California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will create a pilot program for 15 community [&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":[86,209,115,302,57,159,72,143,3,239,44,436,310,66,212,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-disruption","category-higher-education","category-new-business-models","category-pace-of-change","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47651","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=47651"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47658,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47651\/revisions\/47658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}