{"id":84249,"date":"2022-12-03T18:36:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T23:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=84249"},"modified":"2022-12-03T18:36:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T23:36:20","slug":"as-enrollment-falls-and-public-skepticism-grows-some-colleges-are-cutting-their-prices-marcus-several-other-items-related-to-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/12\/03\/as-enrollment-falls-and-public-skepticism-grows-some-colleges-are-cutting-their-prices-marcus-several-other-items-related-to-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"“As enrollment falls and public skepticism grows, some colleges are cutting their prices” [Marcus] + several other items related to higher-education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Udacity’s Train-to-Hire Program Now Available in AWS Marketplace<\/strong> <\/a>— from prnewswire.com by Udacity; with thanks to GSV for this resource<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,\u00a0Nov. 29, 2022\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Udacity, the digital talent transformation platform, today announced the availability of its Train-to-Hire Program in\u00a0AWS Marketplace<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With the addition of this program, AWS customers can now address technical talent gaps in their organizations by working with Udacity to create customizable, hands-on learning programs that attract and upskill net-new sources of talent. Through these Train-to-Hire Programs, AWS customers can transform the breadth and depth of their talent pipelines, lowering recruiting costs for in-demand roles and improving the diversity of their workforce by offering new opportunities to candidates from underrepresented communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

As enrollment falls and public skepticism grows, some colleges are cutting their prices<\/strong><\/a> — from hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus
\nThe cost of college has stopped rising faster than inflation for the first time since the 1980s<\/em><\/p>\n

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Colby-Sawyer College, a nearly 200-year-old institution that inhabits a campus in the heart of this bucolic scene, has announced that it will lower its tuition next year for undergraduates by 62 percent, from $46,364 to $17,500.<\/p>\n

The move is among the first of what experts are predicting could be many colleges\u2019 so-called tuition resets. Other schools are adjusting what they charge in different ways.<\/p>\n

Fewer than one in five families understand that the\u00a0\u201csticker price\u201d colleges put on their websites and in their catalogs is almost certainly more than they will have to pay, and six in 10 say it\u2019s made them walk away without even bothering to apply.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nThat’s very understandable<\/strong><\/em> on that last item\/quote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next Chapter Matters \u2013 Two More Universities Launch Midlife Programs For Every Budget<\/strong> <\/a>— from forbes.com by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox; with thanks to Ray Schroeder out on LinkedIn for this resource<\/p>\n

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Whether you are retiring with millions in the bank or stuck at midlife desperately dreaming of a career pivot, there may soon be a university program for you. The latest offerings coming to the market are a testament to the diversity that is likely to develop as educational institutions start to respond to ageing societies and the future of work.<\/p>\n

The idea that you get all the education you need up front in a four-year bundle at 18, should fast fade as careers lengthen towards the six-decade mark and retirement ages drift ever upward. There are now\u00a012 programs\u00a0on offer, and the two latest launching this year in the US are the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado Denver. (I\u2019ll be looking at programs launching in Europe next).<\/p>\n

Report: Progress on College Completion Rates Stalls<\/strong><\/a> — from insidehighered.com by Safia Abdulahi; with thanks to GSV for this resource<\/p>\n

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A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows that college completion rates have stagnated, with 62.3 percent of students who enrolled in 2016 completing a degree by June 2022\u2014virtually unchanged from last year\u2019s six-year completion rate of 62.2 percent.<\/p>\n

Is This the Beginning of the End of the \u2018U.S. News\u2019 Rankings\u2019 Dominance?<\/strong><\/a> — from chronicle.com by Francie Diep<\/p>\n

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If the law deans\u2019 criticism sounds familiar, it\u2019s because it echoes the complaints that have been leveled for decades against an even bigger project: the magazine\u2019s ranking of undergraduate colleges and universities. There, too, critics have said the magazine\u2019s metrics are flawed, opaque, and harm equity efforts.<\/p>\n

But seldom have institutions acted on their concerns, as Yale and its peers have recently. And if elite colleges are willing to withdraw their support from one\u00a0U.S. News\u00a0ranking in the name of equity, why not another? In other words, is the undergraduate ranking the next venue for this kind of protest?<\/p>\n

Not yet.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring<\/strong><\/a> — from hbr.org<\/p>\n

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

Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn, thinks the site should be a place where its members\u2019 billions of years of collective work experience should be freed to upskill anyone, anywhere, any time. Skills, more than degrees or pedigrees, are the true measure of what makes a great new hire, he argues, especially as the workforce evolves in fast and dramatic ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Udacity’s Train-to-Hire Program Now Available in AWS Marketplace — from prnewswire.com by Udacity; with thanks to GSV for this resource Excerpt (emphasis DSC): MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,\u00a0Nov. 29, 2022\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ —\u00a0Udacity, the digital talent transformation platform, today announced the availability of its Train-to-Hire Program in\u00a0AWS Marketplace,\u00a0a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors […]<\/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":[374,61,86,209,115,302,57,533,36,35,3,15,239,855,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-experimentation","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-lifelong-learning","category-new-business-models","category-skills","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84249","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=84249"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84340,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84249\/revisions\/84340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}