I can’t see any way the American belief in an accredited degree being the most/only valuable type of education dies away. It’s too deeply ingrained in our psyche, whether or not it’s rational.
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Replying to @AustenAllred
I've come to agree with this. Almost all examples of successful post-secondary ed outside the degree system are in tech, while the surprising scaling up - ASU, SNHU - is in degree-granting institutions.
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Replying to @cshirky @AustenAllred
Education and accreditation are different things. Perhaps over time more education will happen outside the organization which provides accreditation.
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Replying to @trengriffin @cshirky
I think it already is, but I haven’t exactly seen a decreased desire for sheepskin
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Replying to @AustenAllred @cshirky
Dec. 20, 2017- University enrollment continued to decline in the fall for the sixth straight year (dropped by nearly 224,000)https://nscnews.org/tag/enrollment-trends/ …
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"more than 400 campuses still had openings for freshmen and transfer students in the fall as of May 1, the traditional end of the admission period, according to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling."http://hechingerreport.org/universities-colleges-struggle-stem-big-drops-enrollment/ …
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True, but more of a plateau, back to 2009 numbers, still astronomically high historically https://www.statista.com/statistics/183995/us-college-enrollment-and-projections-in-public-and-private-institutions/ …
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