{"id":82285,"date":"2022-08-13T21:16:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T01:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=82285"},"modified":"2022-08-13T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T01:20:54","slug":"how-higher-education-lost-its-shine-marcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/08\/13\/how-higher-education-lost-its-shine-marcus\/","title":{"rendered":"How higher education lost its shine [Marcus]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/how-higher-education-lost-its-shine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How higher education lost its shine<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus<br \/>\n<em>Americans are rejecting college in record numbers, but the reasons may not be what you think<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWith the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this,\u201d said Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University\u2019s Miller College of Business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There has been\u00a0a significant and steady drop\u00a0nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school \u2014 from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Myriad focus groups and public opinion surveys point to other reasons for the dramatic downward trend. These include widespread and fast-growing skepticism about the value of a degree, impatience with the time it takes to get one and costs that have finally exceeded many people\u2019s ability or willingness to pay.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\nThis again reminds me of my concerns captured in this graphic I created with Mr. Yohan Na back in 2009:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67249 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Control-Panel-Barometers-2009-Daniel-Christian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Control-Panel-Barometers-2009-Daniel-Christian.jpg 528w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Control-Panel-Barometers-2009-Daniel-Christian-83x150.jpg 83w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How higher education lost its shine &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus Americans are rejecting college in record numbers, but the reasons may not be what you think Excerpt: \u201cWith the exception of wartime, the United States has never been through a period of declining educational attainment like this,\u201d said Michael Hicks, director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[61,86,115,302,159,72,71,36,35,3,74,7,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faculty-staff","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82285","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=82285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82290,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82285\/revisions\/82290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}