{"id":3056,"date":"2010-03-25T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:40:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:40:52","slug":"what-do-you-suppose-will-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/25\/what-do-you-suppose-will-happen-here\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you suppose will happen here&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst of all, here is <em>a mere handful <\/em>of the items that I<em> could have<\/em> selected &#8212; but it is representative of the financial pressures taking place and the resulting changes that are and may be occurring to many more universities and colleges this year:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmtw.com\/news\/22937131\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UMaine could eliminate 16 majors as part of cuts<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Board of Trustees will have final say<\/em><strong><br \/>\nORONO, Maine &#8212; <\/strong>The University of Maine could eliminate  a number of undergraduate and graduate majors as a way to trim more than $12  million in a three-year period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redandblack.com\/2010\/03\/18\/auxiliary-programs-face-large-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Auxiliary programs face large cuts [University of Georgia] <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from redandblack.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycaliforniadegree.com\/california-college-news\/1074-california-college-crisis-causing-students-to-apply-out-of-state\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>California college crisis causing students to apply out of state<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; California College News Blog<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/college-inc\/2010\/03\/montgomery_college_devastating.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Montgomery College [Maryland] faces &#8216;devastating&#8217; cuts<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from WashingtonPost.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2010\/mar\/05\/college-cuts-draw-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>College cuts draw\u00a0protests [California]<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from the spokeman.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lansingstatejournal.com\/article\/20100316\/NEWS01\/303160021\/Michigan-college-tuition-could-rise-under-possible-budget-cut\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michigan college tuition could rise under possible budget cut <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from lsj.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<br \/>\nSo&#8230;what do you suppose will happen if resources\/funding continue to shrink, programs are cut, staff and faculty are laid off, etc.?<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some very possible resulting directions here are that students will:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Go to where they can finish their degrees<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Go to where they can find the degrees that they want to pursue<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Search for &#8212; and utilize &#8212; less expensive alternatives. <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In each of these cases, the word &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\">online<\/span>&#8221; jumps to my mind.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: First of all, here is a mere handful of the items that I could have selected &#8212; but it is representative of the financial pressures taking place and the resulting changes that are and may be occurring to many more universities and colleges this year: UMaine could eliminate 16 majors as part of [&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":[57,177,121,71,37,36,35,62,66],"tags":[52,630,605,585,601,29,603],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-expectations","category-face-to-face","category-faculty-staff","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-online-learning","category-student-related","tag-budgetary","tag-face-to-face","tag-faculty-staff","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-online-learning","tag-student-expectations","tag-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}