{"id":9730,"date":"2010-10-04T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T14:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=9730"},"modified":"2010-10-04T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T16:31:46","slug":"perhaps-the-last-few-years-of-scholarships-for-some-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/04\/perhaps-the-last-few-years-of-scholarships-for-some-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps the last few years of scholarships for some sports&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you are a parent and you have hopes of your son(s) or daughter(s) obtaining athletic scholarships, your days may be numbered. I come from an athletic scholarship background and I&#8217;m glad that I do. However, the days of athletic scholarships may be pruned down a bit in these next few years as budgets continue to get tighter and tighter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">My guess at this point is that the smaller team sports &#8212; such as tennis, golf, wrestling, softball, lacrosse, etc. &#8212; may see fewer teams competing in the future. I don&#8217;t have data here (so I may be wrong), but I would guess that programs will have to be self-sustaining in order to remain open. The larger, revenue-producing sports will probably survive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This article points to this topic:<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/10\/04\/austen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8216;Curriculum Review&#8217; for Athletics<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from InsideHigherEd.com<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">So if you are counting on a college scholarship, I hope your kids are at least in high school&#8230;if not, I would <em>not count on<\/em> this source of funding in the future&#8230;at least for smaller sports (and even that may be generous w\/ the time frames here).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: If you are a parent and you have hopes of your son(s) or daughter(s) obtaining athletic scholarships, your days may be numbered. I come from an athletic scholarship background and I&#8217;m glad that I do. However, the days of athletic scholarships may be pruned down a bit in these next few years as [&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],"tags":[52,290,58,733],"class_list":["post-9730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","tag-budgetary","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-costs","tag-financial-aid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730","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=9730"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9730\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}