{"id":92583,"date":"2024-08-14T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=92583"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:59:22","slug":"44-of-americans-expect-importance-of-college-education-to-decline-over-next-10-years-new-survey-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/08\/14\/44-of-americans-expect-importance-of-college-education-to-decline-over-next-10-years-new-survey-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"44% of Americans Expect Importance of College Education to Decline Over Next 10 Years, New Survey Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/44-of-americans-expect-importance-of-college-education-to-decline-over-next-10-years-new-survey-reveals-302214432.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>44% of Americans Expect Importance of College Education to Decline Over Next 10 Years, New Survey Reveals<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from prnewswire.com by College Consensus<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b><i>New College Consensus poll shows most Americans think traditional 4-year college best route to satisfying career, but nearly half expect importance of traditional college education to decline over next decade, with trade school offering an equal or better return on investment.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 6, 2024<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; College Consensus, a comprehensive resource for college rankings and information, has released results of a new poll asking Americans about their confidence in higher education. Their findings can be seen at:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4226159-1&amp;h=3354425406&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.collegeconsensus.com%2Fresearch%2Ftrust-in-higher-education%2F&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.collegeconsensus.com%2Fresearch%2Ftrust-in-higher-education%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.collegeconsensus.com\/research\/trust-in-higher-education\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The key takeaways of that report are that:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Americans still largely trust traditional higher education, but not as much as they used to<\/li>\n<li>Nearly half of Americans believe traditional college education will decline in importance in the next decade<\/li>\n<li>Americans view trade school as offering almost equivalent ROI to traditional college<\/li>\n<li>Trust in community college and online college is lower than traditional, but still strong<\/li>\n<li>Technology bootcamps struggling to gain trust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The above is happening at the same time as this:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/college-degree-programs-cuts-music-f0c271f6d61a13404f93688fcc6c589b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>US colleges are cutting majors and slashing programs after years of putting it off<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from apnews.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It\u2019s part of a wave of\u00a0program cuts\u00a0in recent months, as U.S. colleges large and small try to make ends meet. Among their budget challenges: Federal COVID relief money is now gone, operational costs are rising and fewer high school graduates are\u00a0going straight to college.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The cuts mean more than just savings, or even job losses. Often, they create\u00a0turmoil for students\u00a0who chose a campus because of certain degree programs and then wrote checks or signed up for student loans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cFor me, it\u2019s really been anxiety-ridden,\u201d said Westman, 23, as she began the effort that ultimately led her to transfer to Augsburg University in Minneapolis. \u201cIt\u2019s just the fear of the unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>44% of Americans Expect Importance of College Education to Decline Over Next 10 Years, New Survey Reveals &#8212; from prnewswire.com by College Consensus New College Consensus poll shows most Americans think traditional 4-year college best route to satisfying career, but nearly half expect importance of traditional college education to decline over next decade, with trade [&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":[61,86,115,302,57,848,37,36,35,3,7,560,436,310,212,321,214,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-emotion","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-parents-guardians","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vocational-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92583","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=92583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92585,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92583\/revisions\/92585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}