{"id":84802,"date":"2022-12-31T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=84802"},"modified":"2022-12-31T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:51:17","slug":"for-those-who-dog-the-doomsayers-of-higher-ed-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/12\/31\/for-those-who-dog-the-doomsayers-of-higher-ed-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"For those who dog the &#8220;doomsayers&#8221; of higher ed&#8230; [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\nFor those who dog the &#8220;doomsayers&#8221; of higher ed&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">You need to realize many &#8220;doomsayers&#8221; are trying to get traditional institutions of higher education to change, experiment, lower their price tags, collaborate with K12 and\/or with the corporate\/vocational realms, and to innovate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">While many of those same institutions haven&#8217;t closed (at least not yet), there are many examples of budget cuts, downsizing, layoffs, early retirements, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Many of those same institutions are not the same as they were 20-30 years ago &#8212; not even close. This is becoming especially true for liberal arts colleges.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Here&#8217;s one example that made me post this reflection:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/28\/1145854089\/why-some-rural-universities-are-dropping-dozens-of-programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Why some rural universities are dropping dozens of programs<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from npr.org by Ason Fuller, Lee Hale, and Sarah McCammon<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>NPR&#8217;s Sarah McCammon talks with Hechinger Report Author Jon Marcus about the financial woes of rural universities and why some are dropping dozens of programs.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Many colleges and universities in rural America are slashing budgets as enrollment numbers continue to dwindle. And often, the first things to be cut are humanities programs like history and English. It&#8217;s forcing some students to consider transferring to other schools or leaving higher education altogether. Jon Marcus has been covering this erosion of funding at rural universities and its domino effects with The Hechinger Report, and he joins us now. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: For those who dog the &#8220;doomsayers&#8221; of higher ed&#8230; You need to realize many &#8220;doomsayers&#8221; are trying to get traditional institutions of higher education to change, experiment, lower their price tags, collaborate with K12 and\/or with the corporate\/vocational realms, and to innovate While many of those same institutions haven&#8217;t closed (at least not [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,127,115,302,112,324,159,72,533,71,36,3,180,74,7,239,130,20,321,214,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-curriculum","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-experimentation","category-faculty-staff","category-future-of-higher-education","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-new-business-models","category-podcasting","category-strategy","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vocational-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84802","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=84802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84803,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84802\/revisions\/84803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}