{"id":32048,"date":"2012-08-28T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=32048"},"modified":"2012-08-28T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:50:22","slug":"come-again-do-you-still-assert-that-higher-ed-isnt-a-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/08\/28\/come-again-do-you-still-assert-that-higher-ed-isnt-a-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Come again? Do you still assert that higher ed isn&#8217;t a business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/University-Inventions-Earned\/133972\/\" target=\"_blank\">Universities report $1.4-billion in earnings on inventions in 2011<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from The Chronicle by Goldie Blumenstyk<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><em>Excerpt (<span style=\"color: #800000;\">emphasis DSC<\/span>):<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Universities and their inventors earned more than $1.4-<em>billion<\/em> from commercializing their academic research in the 2011 fiscal year, <\/strong><\/span>collecting royalties from new breeds of wheat, from a new drug for the treatment of HIV, and from longstanding arrangements over enduring products like Gatorade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Northwestern University earned the most of any institution reporting, with more than $191-<em>million<\/em> in licensing income.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">That sounds about right&#8230;my alma mater (NU) going for the cash &#8212; rewarding research(ers), while not putting enough resources and consideration towards whether these researchers can actually <em>teach<\/em>.\u00a0 I wonder how much these researchers are being paid per year&#8230;?\u00a0 Probably some serious paychecks are involved here.\u00a0 How do those high salaries impact the cost of tuition?\u00a0 BTW, NU\u00a0 currently charges <em>~$65,000 a year.\u00a0 <\/em>Are <em>students&#8217;<\/em> interests really being served here?\u00a0 But who really cares, right?\u00a0 As long as the NU brand buys them access to high-paying careers&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities report $1.4-billion in earnings on inventions in 2011 &#8212; from The Chronicle by Goldie Blumenstyk Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Universities and their inventors earned more than $1.4-billion from commercializing their academic research in the 2011 fiscal year, collecting royalties from new breeds of wheat, from a new drug for the treatment of HIV, and from [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,57,72,3,66],"tags":[600,290,606,566,603],"class_list":["post-32048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-daniel-s-christian","category-higher-education","category-student-related","tag-business-side-of-he","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-higher-education","tag-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048","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=32048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32054,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions\/32054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}