{"id":59273,"date":"2017-04-20T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=59273"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:08:11","slug":"has-cutting-your-way-to-greatness-ever-worked-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/04\/20\/has-cutting-your-way-to-greatness-ever-worked-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"Has cutting your way to greatness ever worked? [Reed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/confessions-community-college-dean\/cutting-your-way-greatness\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Has cutting your way to greatness ever worked?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Matt Reed<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0I can\u2019t think of a time that it has, yet it remains a common default mode.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Has cutting your way to greatness ever worked?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I can\u2019t think of a time that it has, yet it remains a common default mode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In places with declining enrollments and without generous external benefactors, it\u2019s easy to fall into the trap of constant cutting. Each year is a fresh emergency, bringing another round of short-term patches and \u201ctemporary\u201d workarounds that quickly become new baselines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Over time, though, the cuts do damage that starts to show up in enrollments. Too many classes cancelled or calls unreturned lead to attrition, which leads to calls for still more cuts. Cut an off-campus location to save money, and whoops, you lose its enrollments, leading to a need for more cutting. Add an inexorably rising underlying cost &#8212; say, just hypothetically, health insurance &#8212; and you have the makings of a death spiral.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The task for the emerging generation of leadership isn\u2019t just fiscal; it\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has cutting your way to greatness ever worked? &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Matt Reed \u00a0I can\u2019t think of a time that it has, yet it remains a common default mode.\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt: Has cutting your way to greatness ever worked? I can\u2019t think of a time that it has, yet it remains a common default mode. [&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":[113,61,86,115,302,36,35,3,74,20,214,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-strategy","category-universities","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59273","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=59273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59275,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59273\/revisions\/59275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}