{"id":92942,"date":"2024-09-18T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=92942"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:09:40","slug":"dsc-i-agree-with-brandon-busteed-on-this-item-excellent-pricing-tuition-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/09\/18\/dsc-i-agree-with-brandon-busteed-on-this-item-excellent-pricing-tuition-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"DSC: I agree with Brandon Busteed on this item &#8212; excellent pricing\/tuition transparency!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embedded post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:7242150925421752320\" width=\"504\" height=\"587\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\nThe cost of obtaining a degree is heavily on my mind this morning as I&#8217;m having to withdraw funds &#8212; again &#8212; to help our son get through his senior year of college. He&#8217;s a Marine Reservist and he continues to do his best to contribute to his expenses&#8230;but man o&#8217; man, these expenses are just crazy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">So it&#8217;s no surprise this item caught my eye!\u00a0 Anything colleges and universities can do to bring down the prices &#8212; as well as make the <em>total prices<\/em> more transparent and upfront &#8212; would be greatly appreciated by students and families alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also related, see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2024-09-17-how-rising-higher-ed-costs-change-student-attitudes-about-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Rising Higher Ed Costs Change Student Attitudes About College<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; from edsurge.com by Jeffrey R. Young<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But she admits the issue is complicated. She said one of her own daughters, who is now 26, would have benefitted from a gap year. \u201cThe problem was the cost was a major factor,\u201d Klein told me. \u201cShe was offered huge financial aid by a very good school, and I said, \u2018We don\u2019t know if you take a gap year if that offer is going to be on the table. And I can\u2019t afford this school without that offer.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: The cost of obtaining a degree is heavily on my mind this morning as I&#8217;m having to withdraw funds &#8212; again &#8212; to help our son get through his senior year of college. He&#8217;s a Marine Reservist and he continues to do his best to contribute to his expenses&#8230;but man o&#8217; man, these [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,115,302,57,71,3,419,825,74,7,239,560,480,293,20,66,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-law-schools","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-new-business-models","category-parents-guardians","category-society","category-sociology","category-strategy","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92942","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=92942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92947,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92942\/revisions\/92947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}