{"id":310,"date":"2010-02-17T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-02-17T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:47:31","slug":"public-attitudes-towards-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Public Attitudes Towards Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting, and troubling, article in today&#8217;s New York Times. A new study shows an increasing number of people believe that colleges are focused more on operating like a business than on providing a quality educational experience. And, while an increasing number of Americans believe college is essential to success, a decreasing number believe it is available to qualified, motivated students. You can see the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/17\/education\/17college.html?hpw\">here<\/a>. This discussion is timely as we prepare for next week&#8217;s forum on financing public higher education in the years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting, and troubling, article in today&#8217;s New York Times. A new study shows an increasing number of people believe that colleges are focused more on operating like a business than on providing a quality educational experience. And,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=310\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}