{"id":42422,"date":"2013-09-11T11:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=42422"},"modified":"2013-09-11T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:25:31","slug":"higher-education-is-headed-for-a-shakeout-analysts-warn-marcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/09\/11\/higher-education-is-headed-for-a-shakeout-analysts-warn-marcus\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher education is headed for a shakeout, analysts warn [Marcus]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/content\/higher-education-is-headed-for-a-shakeout-analysts-warn_12996\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Higher education is headed for a shakeout, analysts warn<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from\u00a0hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cA growing percentage of our colleges and universities are in real financial trouble,\u201d<\/span> the financial consulting firm Bain &amp; Company concluded in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesustainableuniversity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">a report<\/a>\u2014<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>one-third of them, to be exact, <\/strong>according to Bain, which found that<strong> these institutions\u2019 operating costs are rising faster than revenues and investment returns can cover them.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That\u2019s because, as enrollments decline and families become more sensitive to price, colleges are cutting deeply into their revenue by giving discounts to attract students. <span style=\"color: #800000;\">The result is that, even though their sticker prices seem to be ballooning faster than the inflation rate, many of these schools are falling further and further behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/could-online-learning-mean-fewer-buildings-for-iowa-colleges\/170070\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Could online learning mean fewer buildings for Iowa colleges?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from educationdive.com by Daniel Shumski<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28730\" alt=\"Daniel S. Christian - Think Virtual -- April 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DanielChristian-ThinkVirtual-April2012.jpg\" width=\"542\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DanielChristian-ThinkVirtual-April2012.jpg 542w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DanielChristian-ThinkVirtual-April2012-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher education is headed for a shakeout, analysts warn &#8212; from\u00a0hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus Excerpt (emphasis DSC): \u201cA growing percentage of our colleges and universities are in real financial trouble,\u201d the financial consulting firm Bain &amp; Company concluded in a report\u2014one-third of them, to be exact, according to Bain, which found that these institutions\u2019 operating [&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":[61,159,72,143,36,35,3,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-disruption","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42422","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=42422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42429,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42422\/revisions\/42429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}