{"id":18422,"date":"2011-04-25T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=18422"},"modified":"2011-04-25T08:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:23:26","slug":"expanding-language-by-online-degree-kolowich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/25\/expanding-language-by-online-degree-kolowich\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding Language by (Online) Degree [Kolowich]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2011\/04\/25\/pennsylvania_public_higher_education_system_will_offer_fully_online_degrees_in_arabic_and_other_languages\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Expanding Language by (Online) Degree<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Arabic is not a universal language, least of all in Pennsylvania. But by developing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calu.edu\/academics\/online-programs\/ba-arabic-language\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">fully online undergraduate degree<\/a> in Arabic language and culture, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher  Education (PASSHE) will soon make Arabic universally available across  its 14 colleges and universities \u2014 with other online language programs  to follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2011\/04\/14_state-owned_universities_wi.html\" target=\"_blank\">plan<\/a> comes amid efforts by PASSHE administrators to consolidate resources  across the system by cutting programs at some institutions that can be  offered online by others. A pending budget proposal by Governor Tom  Corbett would cut the system\u2019s funding by more than half in the coming  year, and language programs on a number of campuses have already been  shuttered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expanding Language by (Online) Degree &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich Arabic is not a universal language, least of all in Pennsylvania. But by developing a fully online undergraduate degree in Arabic language and culture, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) will soon make Arabic universally available across its 14 colleges and universities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[289,62],"tags":[599,601,399],"class_list":["post-18422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages-and-translation","category-online-learning","tag-languages","tag-online-learning","tag-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18424,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions\/18424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}