{"id":7561,"date":"2010-07-29T10:32:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T14:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2010-07-29T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T14:37:47","slug":"higher-ed-the-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/07\/29\/higher-ed-the-bubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher ed: The bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7562\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/educationstormfront.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/20\/chart-of-the-day-is-college-education-the-next-bubble-set-to-burst\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7562\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7562\" title=\"HE-Bubble-7-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HE-Bubble-7-2010.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HE-Bubble-7-2010.jpg 396w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HE-Bubble-7-2010-114x150.jpg 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Higher Ed&#39;s bubble<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mjperry.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/higher-education-bubble-its-about-to.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Higher Education Bubble: It&#8217;s About to Burst<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-tuition-home-prices-cpi-2010-7\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chart of the day: Is College Education The Next Bubble Set To Burst?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/Sunday_Reflections\/Higher-education_s-bubble-is-about-to-burst-95639354.html\">Glenn  Reynolds: Higher education\u2019s bubble is about to burst | Washington  Examiner<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a story of an industry that  may sound familiar.\u00a0 The buyers think what they&#8217;re buying will  appreciate in value, making them rich in the future. The product grows  more and more elaborate, and more and more expensive, but the expense is  offset by cheap credit provided by sellers eager to encourage buyers to  buy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Buyers see that everyone else is  taking on mounds of debt, and so are more comfortable when they do so  themselves; besides, for a generation, the value of what they&#8217;re buying  has gone up steadily. What could go wrong? Everything continues smoothly  until, at some point, it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Yes, this sounds like the housing  bubble, but I&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s also sounding a lot like a still-inflating  higher education bubble. And despite (or because of) the fact that my  day job involves higher education, I think it&#8217;s better for us to face up  to what&#8217;s going on before the bubble bursts messily.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also see: The Higher Education Bubble: It&#8217;s About to Burst Chart of the day: Is College Education The Next Bubble Set To Burst? Glenn Reynolds: Higher education\u2019s bubble is about to burst | Washington Examiner &#8220;It&#8217;s a story of an industry that may sound familiar.\u00a0 The buyers think what they&#8217;re buying will appreciate in value, [&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":[61,57,36,35],"tags":[52,290,586,585,566],"class_list":["post-7561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","tag-budgetary","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561","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=7561"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7561\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}