{"id":73043,"date":"2020-11-24T09:33:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73043"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:57:12","slug":"is-this-the-end-of-college-as-we-know-it-belkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/11\/24\/is-this-the-end-of-college-as-we-know-it-belkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the end of college as we know it? [Belkin]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wall<\/a><\/p>\n

Americans aren\u2019t turning their backs on education; they are reconsidering how to obtain it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is This the End of College as We Know It?<\/strong> <\/a>— from wsj.com by Douglas Belkin
\nFor millions of Americans, getting a four-year degree no longer makes sense. Here\u2019s what could replace it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

For traditional college students, the American postsecondary education system frequently means frontloading a lifetime\u2019s worth of formal education and\u00a0going into debt to do it<\/a>. That is\u00a0no longer working for millions of people<\/a>, and the failure is clearing the way for alternatives: Faster, cheaper, specialized credentials closely aligned with the labor market and updated incrementally over a longer period, education experts say. These new credentials aren\u2019t limited to traditional colleges and universities. Private industry has already\u00a0begun to play a larger role<\/a>\u00a0in shaping what is taught and who is paying for it.<\/p>\n

For more than a century, a four-year college degree was a blue-chip credential and a steppingstone to the American dream. For many millennials and now Gen Z, it has become an albatross around their necks.<\/p>\n

What has embittered so many millennials is that they played by the rules and still got stuck. Ben Puckett, a 30-year-old pastor in Michigan, earned a B.S. in physical therapy before a Master\u2019s degree in divinity. He is $95,000 in debt.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI went to college because I was told by parents, friends, teachers and counselors that it was the only way to ensure a good future,\u201d Mr. Puckett says. \u201cAt 18 years old, how was I supposed to defy what my school, parents, society, friends were saying about going to college?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans aren\u2019t turning their backs on education; they are reconsidering how to obtain it. Is This the End of College as We Know It? — from wsj.com by Douglas Belkin For millions of Americans, getting a four-year degree no longer makes sense. Here\u2019s what could replace it. Excerpt: For traditional college students, the American postsecondary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[61,174,86,209,115,302,211,37,36,35,178,3,102,7,510,79,15,239,560,436,480,310,66,212,89,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-funding-grants","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-higher-education","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-liberal-arts","category-lifelong-learning","category-new-business-models","category-parents-guardians","category-reinvent","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-teachers","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043","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=73043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73048,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73043\/revisions\/73048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}