{"id":91201,"date":"2024-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=91201"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:35:31","slug":"its-time-higher-ed-become-financially-literate-curcio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/03\/28\/its-time-higher-ed-become-financially-literate-curcio\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time Higher Ed Become Financially Literate [Curcio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/yassprize\/2024\/03\/27\/its-time-higher-ed-become-financially-literate\/?sh=54fe0d701a59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>It\u2019s Time Higher Ed Become Financially Literate<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from forbes.com by Brian Curcio<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Alarming Reality<br \/>\n<\/strong>Over the past 12 years, US student loan debt has quadrupled to a staggering $1.7 trillion. Nearly 44 million Americans carry an average debt of $37,718, and over 11 percent of aggregate student loan debt (pre-COVID) is more than 90 days delinquent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This past year, the average public university student borrowed over $32,000 to receive a bachelor\u2019s degree. However,\u00a0only 11 percent of employers\u00a0believe that a degree prepares students for the workforce. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>It\u2019s a cruel irony: a $32,000 loan \u2013 not counting interest \u2013 for a degree that doesn\u2019t prepare you for the career needed to repay the debt.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Another higher education-related item:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.educause.edu\/resources\/2024\/3\/the-it-leadership-workforce-in-higher-education-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The IT Leadership Workforce in Higher Education, 2024<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from library.educause.edu by Mark McCormack<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><i>The IT Leader Workforce in Higher Education, 2024<\/i>, aims to map the current contours of the IT leader workforce, understand its current challenges and opportunities, and reflect on what it all might mean for building a stronger workforce and\u2014ultimately\u2014a stronger higher education for the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.educause.edu\/resources\/2024\/3\/the-it-leadership-workforce-in-higher-education-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/library.educause.edu\/-\/media\/images\/library\/2024\/3\/header.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75%\" height=\"75%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Time Higher Ed Become Financially Literate &#8212; from forbes.com by Brian Curcio Excerpt (emphasis DSC): The Alarming Reality Over the past 12 years, US student loan debt has quadrupled to a staggering $1.7 trillion. Nearly 44 million Americans carry an average debt of $37,718, and over 11 percent of aggregate student loan debt (pre-COVID) [&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":[61,174,115,302,57,306,3,449,560,66,321,214,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-economics","category-higher-education","category-marketplaces","category-parents-guardians","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vocational-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91201","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=91201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91212,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91201\/revisions\/91212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}