{"id":85446,"date":"2023-02-07T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85446"},"modified":"2023-02-07T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T19:19:13","slug":"what-can-work-colleges-teach-the-rest-of-higher-ed-spitalniak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/02\/07\/what-can-work-colleges-teach-the-rest-of-higher-ed-spitalniak\/","title":{"rendered":"What can work colleges teach the rest of higher ed? [Spitalniak]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/work-colleges-adult-learners\/639996\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>What can work colleges teach the rest of higher ed?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak<br \/>\n<em>Amid high worries about higher ed\u2019s value in the job market, work colleges offer lessons on integrating classroom learning with employment opportunities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To qualify as a work college, an institution must be nonprofit, offer four-year degrees and provide students with employment through a work-learning-service program that will contribute to their education.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIt found work colleges\u2019 strengths \u2014 reduced or free tuition, job experience and mentorship from college faculty and staff \u2014 address student concerns over the cost and real-world applicability of a college degree. Work colleges can also make adult learners\u2019 lives logistically easier by combining academics and work, the report found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The intentional connection of learning, work and service is the most compelling part of the model, according to Louis Soares, chief learning and innovation officer at ACE and one of the report\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can work colleges teach the rest of higher ed? &#8212; from highereddive.com by Laura Spitalniak Amid high worries about higher ed\u2019s value in the job market, work colleges offer lessons on integrating classroom learning with employment opportunities. Excerpt: To qualify as a work college, an institution must be nonprofit, offer four-year degrees and provide [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,174,115,57,533,71,211,3,226,486,436,855,20,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-experimentation","category-faculty-staff","category-funding-grants","category-higher-education","category-passions","category-real-world-assignments","category-reinvent","category-skills","category-strategy","category-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85446","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=85446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85447,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85446\/revisions\/85447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}