{"id":29036,"date":"2012-05-04T09:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T13:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=29036"},"modified":"2012-05-04T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:16:29","slug":"reflections-what-are-we-modeling-in-higher-ed-and-what-are-the-goals-and-states-of-the-hearts-of-students-about-to-enter-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/05\/04\/reflections-what-are-we-modeling-in-higher-ed-and-what-are-the-goals-and-states-of-the-hearts-of-students-about-to-enter-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections: What are we modeling in higher ed and what are the goals — and states of the hearts — of students about to enter the workplace? What about our hearts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Indiana University business grads, a tough final lesson<\/strong><\/a>
\nThose who failed to pick up tickets for ceremony now face black-market prices.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

“I can’t believe it. It’s absolutely distressing,” said Beatty, a senior from Fishers who missed the pickup time for free graduation tickets for herself and her parents last month and now faces paying several hundred dollars to attend the ceremony in the auditorium on the Bloomington campus.<\/p>\n

“My parents spent $70,000 to send me here the last four years, and they won’t be able to attend,” she said Wednesday. “It’s really opened my eyes about Kelley students. What have we been taught here? Why are my fellow Kelley classmates charging me extortion rates?”<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\n I can’t comment on Beatty or the other students who didn’t take immediate action to acquire their tickets to the event (perhaps that’s one lesson to be learned here).\u00a0 But more troubling to me were the reflections I had after reading this article:<\/span><\/p>\n