{"id":7068,"date":"2010-07-12T10:54:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2010-08-24T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:02:22","slug":"follow-the-money-from-insidehighered-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/07\/12\/follow-the-money-from-insidehighered-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Money — from InsideHigherEd.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow the Money<\/strong><\/a> — from InsideHigherEd.com<\/p>\n

In a sea of often bewildering data about college spending practices, a small island of clarity is emerging.<\/p>\n

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In conjunction with its third annual \u201cTrends in College Spending\u201d report, released today, the Delta Project<\/a> on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability provides a publicly available database<\/a> that allows journalists, policy makers and anyone curious about higher education an opportunity to decipher where college funding comes from and where it goes.<\/p>\n

While the Delta Cost Project has for years provided broad overviews of spending practices<\/a> at various types of institutions, the new database\u2019s groundbreaking feature is that — fasten your seatbelts — it allows for an analysis of the budget priorities of individual institutions. Jane Wellman, the project’s executive director, hopes that the new data will stimulate conversations about spending priorities and cost containment — or the lack thereof — that generally aren\u2019t happening now at the national, state or institutional level. Such conversations, she adds, are long overdue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve got a lot of habits to break in higher education,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s much to pore over in the Delta Project\u2019s new report, it is necessarily limited because the federal data on spending the project draws on are now available only through 2008. Consequently, the recession that is now crippling many colleges and universities is barely captured in the current report — and some of the big spending it meticulously documents happened in what history will likely regard as the heady days of higher ed.<\/p>\n

So what can Delta tell us now? Perhaps most importantly, the project can begin to respond in a meaningful way to common arguments that have played out among faculty, students, administrators and state and federal policy makers in the last several years. Here are a few debates we\u2019ve been hearing a lot, and the responses and insights Delta offers:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow the Money — from InsideHigherEd.com In a sea of often bewildering data about college spending practices, a small island of clarity is emerging. In conjunction with its third annual \u201cTrends in College Spending\u201d report, released today, the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability provides a publicly available database that allows journalists, […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[566,637],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","tag-higher-education","tag-perfect-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068","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=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7070,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}