{"id":29273,"date":"2012-05-14T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=29273"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:19:58","slug":"reflections-on-a-generation-hobbled-by-the-soaring-cost-of-college-martin-lehren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/05\/14\/reflections-on-a-generation-hobbled-by-the-soaring-cost-of-college-martin-lehren\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;A generation hobbled by the soaring cost of college&#8221; [Martin &#038; Lehren]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/13\/business\/student-loans-weighing-down-a-generation-with-heavy-debt.html?_r=1&amp;ref=education\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-29274\" title=\"GenerationHobbledByDebt-NYT-5-14-12\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GenerationHobbledByDebt-NYT-5-14-12.jpg\" alt=\"A generation hobbled by the soaring cost of college\" width=\"627\" height=\"670\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GenerationHobbledByDebt-NYT-5-14-12.jpg 627w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GenerationHobbledByDebt-NYT-5-14-12-140x150.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>My thanks to <\/em>Academic Impressions<em> who sent out the above item and the interactive graphic below.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/05\/13\/business\/student-debt-at-colleges-and-universities.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Student debt at colleges and universities across the nation<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; NYT interactive graphic<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smatoos.com\/?p=10384\" target=\"_blank\">$70,000 in Student Loans or Making $100,000 as a Mechanic? The Vocational School Gets Cool<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; by Nell Wulfhart<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,2113794-1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Learning that works<\/strong> &#8211;<\/a>&#8211; from Time.com by Joe Klein<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b90000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #b90000;\">I am not posting these to put down liberal arts colleges\/universities\/programs.\u00a0 In fact, I went through a liberal arts program in college and I&#8217;m currently working at a liberal arts college.\u00a0 Rather, I&#8217;m posting them to say,<strong> &#8220;Houston, we have a problem.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/strong>And to then prompt us all to ask,<strong> &#8220;What are we going to do about it?&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b90000;\">Which reminds me again of a graphic I created a while back<strong>:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-662\" title=\"danielschristian-concerns-with-the-status-quo-2009\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/danielschristian-concerns-with-the-status-quo-20091.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel S. Christian: My concerns with just maintaining the status quo\" width=\"528\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/danielschristian-concerns-with-the-status-quo-20091.jpg 528w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/danielschristian-concerns-with-the-status-quo-20091-82x150.jpg 82w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/danielschristian-concerns-with-the-status-quo-20091-330x600.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendum on 5\/15\/12:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/15\/business\/colleges-begin-to-confront-higher-costs-and-students-debt.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">Slowly, as student debt rises, colleges confront costs<\/a><\/strong>&#8212; from the NYT by Andrew Martin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/05\/15\/business\/15ohiostate-pic\/15ohiostate-pic-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Andrew Spear for The New York Times<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">E. Gordon Gee, the president of The Ohio State University, says that public colleges and universities <span style=\"color: #800000;\">need to devise<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> a new business model<\/span><\/strong> to pay for the costs of education, beyond sticking students with higher tuition and greater debt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 In a wood-paneled office lined with books, sports memorabilia and framed posters (including John Belushi in \u201cAnimal House\u201d), E. Gordon Gee, the president of <a title=\"More articles about Ohio State University\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/o\/ohio_state_university\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Ohio State University<\/a>, keeps a framed quotation that reads, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t like change, you\u2019re going to like irrelevance even less.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks to Academic Impressions who sent out the above item and the interactive graphic below. Student debt at colleges and universities across the nation &#8212; NYT interactive graphic $70,000 in Student Loans or Making $100,000 as a Mechanic? The Vocational School Gets Cool &#8212; by Nell Wulfhart Learning that works &#8211;&#8211; from Time.com by [&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":[57,159,72,436,310],"tags":[290,653,606,733,779,722],"class_list":["post-29273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-financial-aid","tag-reinvent","tag-staying-relevant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273","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=29273"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29280,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29273\/revisions\/29280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}