{"id":65937,"date":"2019-01-22T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T19:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65937"},"modified":"2019-01-22T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T19:13:17","slug":"attention-college-shoppers-these-schools-are-slashing-their-prices-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/01\/22\/attention-college-shoppers-these-schools-are-slashing-their-prices-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention, college shoppers. These schools are slashing their prices. [Anderson]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/attention-college-shoppers-these-schools-are-slashing-their-prices\/2019\/01\/21\/e384eca0-12bc-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Attention, college shoppers. These schools are slashing their prices.<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Nick Anderson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-elm-loc=\"1\">As soaring tuition scares off many families, a growing number of private colleges have embraced a marketing tactic associated more with selling airline tickets or flat-screen televisions than higher education: a price cut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-elm-loc=\"2\">St. John\u2019s College slashed tuition from $52,734 in this school year to $35,000 in the next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-elm-loc=\"3\">The liberal arts school, with campuses in Maryland and New Mexico, joined more than 20 others nationwide that have reduced prices in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" data-elm-loc=\"4\">The movement exposes a reality of higher education long hidden in plain sight: The difference between sticker prices and what the average student actually pays is often vast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cIs that tenable? Is that right? Is that who we are?\u201d asked Panayiotis Kanelos, president of the campus in Annapolis, Md. \u201cIs it right for us to expect families to bear that burden?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u201cEvery time you raise the tuition, the screw gets tighter and tighter on families in the middle,\u201d Kanelos said. \u201cSomething is broken in tuition pricing. We want to fix it now.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention, college shoppers. These schools are slashing their prices. &#8212; from washingtonpost.com by Nick Anderson Excerpt: As soaring tuition scares off many families, a growing number of private colleges have embraced a marketing tactic associated more with selling airline tickets or flat-screen televisions than higher education: a price cut. St. John\u2019s College slashed tuition from [&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":[61,115,57,347,3,419,560,436,480,66,321,214,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-education-reform","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-parents-guardians","category-reinvent","category-society","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65937","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=65937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65940,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65937\/revisions\/65940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}