{"id":43772,"date":"2013-12-10T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=43772"},"modified":"2013-12-10T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:30:31","slug":"is-higher-education-on-the-same-trajectory-as-blockbuster-kodak-others-who-didnt-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/12\/10\/is-higher-education-on-the-same-trajectory-as-blockbuster-kodak-others-who-didnt-adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Is higher education on the same trajectory as Blockbuster, Kodak, &#038; others who didn&#8217;t adapt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Is higher education on the same trajectory as Blockbuster, Kodak, &amp; others who didn&#8217;t adapt?\u00a0 <\/strong>Some items that prompted me to ask this question (again):<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/12\/09\/private-colleges-remain-under-weather\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Private Distress<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Ry Rivard<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Some private colleges that managed to weather the recession are finding new troubles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So they are announcing layoffs, cutting programs and more. Almost all of these small to mid-sized privates are tuition-dependent and lack large endowments. National declines in the number of traditional college-age population mean students just aren&#8217;t showing up to privates, which are facing competition from public colleges that are\u00a0more stable now than a few years ago and the reality that privates cannot afford to indefinitely\u00a0lure students by cutting prices with generous financial aid packages. And this could become a huge problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bob-kerrey\/higher-education-reform_b_4377488.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Higher education: On a crash course for reinvention<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; huffingtonpost.com by Bob Kerrey<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aspireblog.org\/higher-ed\/obama-higher-ed-find-ways-lower-costs-maintain-quality\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama to Higher Ed: Find Ways to Lower Costs, Maintain Quality<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from aspireblog.org by Sara Jacobi<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0\u201cThe Secretary is particularly interested in experiments that will improve student persistence and academic success, result in shorter time to degree, and reduce student loan indebtedness,\u201d reads the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/documents\/college-affordability\/notice-experimental-sites-initiative.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">notice issued by the Department of Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: Is higher education on the same trajectory as Blockbuster, Kodak, &amp; others who didn&#8217;t adapt?\u00a0 Some items that prompted me to ask this question (again): &nbsp; Private Distress &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Ry Rivard Excerpt: Some private colleges that managed to weather the recession are finding new troubles. So they are announcing layoffs, [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43772","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=43772"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43797,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43772\/revisions\/43797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}