{"id":90480,"date":"2024-02-09T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90480"},"modified":"2024-02-09T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T17:45:29","slug":"a-new-online-education-platform-enrollment-cliffs-plus-other-he-related-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/02\/09\/a-new-online-education-platform-enrollment-cliffs-plus-other-he-related-items\/","title":{"rendered":"A new online education platform, enrollment cliffs, plus other HE related items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/starting-a-business\/shaq-backs-campus-initiative-for-debt-free-degrees\/469310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How This College Dropout Raised $29 Million for His Online Education Platform and Landed the Biggest Investor of All \u2014 Shaq<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from entrepreneur.com by Dan Bova; via GSV<br \/>\n<em>Campus founder Tade Oyerinde and investor Shaquille O&#8217;Neal discuss the debt-free mission of the online community college.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/campus.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Campus<\/a> offers two-year associate degrees with tuition costs that allow many students to go for free.<\/li>\n<li>The online community college has garnered $29 million in investment.<\/li>\n<li>Shaq says the company met his criteria for investment: a passionate founder, a mission to change lives and a solid exit strategy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/colleges-were-already-bracing-for-an-enrollment-cliff-now-there-might-be-a-second-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Colleges Were Already Bracing for an \u2018Enrollment Cliff.\u2019 Now There Might Be a Second One.<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Dan Bauman; via GSV<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>[In addition to the decline of high school graduates starting in 2025]<\/em> In recent months, however, the Census has updated its forecasts \u2014 instead of rebounding at some point in the mid-2030s, the number of 18-year-olds is now projected to contract after cresting at around 4.2 million people in 2033, shrinking to around 3.8 million by 2039. After that, the Bureau doesn\u2019t anticipate the population of 18-year-olds will exceed 4 million people in any year this century.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opencampusmedia.org\/2024\/01\/25\/this-incarcerated-vietnam-vet-made-education-his-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How this Vietnam vet started a college program at a desert prison<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from opencampusmedia.org; an essay by James \u201cSneaky\u201d White as told to Charlotte West.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">James \u201cSneaky\u201d White, 80, spent nearly four decades incarcerated in California. His nickname \u201cSneaky\u201d comes from his days as a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. While he was incarcerated, he helped create a college program that has since graduated more than 1,500 men. In this \u201cas told to\u201d story, he shares how he started a college program for veterans at a desert prison.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Virtual Forum &#8211; On Demand<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/featured\/student-success\/incarcerated-student-programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Starting a Program for Incarcerated Students <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from chronicle.com by Charles B. Adams, Ruth Delaney, and Laura Massa; via Goldie Blumenstyk<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Does your institution have programming in place for incarcerated students? Thanks to new federal assistance, students in many prisons can now take college courses for credit. While colleges are interested in starting or expanding programs to serve those students, they often have no idea how to do so.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How This College Dropout Raised $29 Million for His Online Education Platform and Landed the Biggest Investor of All \u2014 Shaq &#8212; from entrepreneur.com by Dan Bova; via GSV Campus founder Tade Oyerinde and investor Shaquille O&#8217;Neal discuss the debt-free mission of the online community college. Key Takeaways Campus offers two-year associate degrees with tuition [&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":[113,329,322,61,209,115,302,71,3,436,480,293,321,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-adjunct-faculty","category-business-side-of-he","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-reinvent","category-society","category-sociology","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90480","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=90480"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90545,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90480\/revisions\/90545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}