{"id":1782,"date":"2007-10-02T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T06:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/02\/terrible-ideas-in-higher-ed-hi\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T06:57:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T06:57:18","slug":"terrible-ideas-in-higher-ed-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/02\/terrible-ideas-in-higher-ed-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrible Ideas in Higher Ed: Hizzoner Da Mayor Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/insidehighered.com\/news\/2007\/10\/02\/qt\">Inside Higher Ed<\/a>, a brilliant new approach to the problem of high tuition costs, coutesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/education\/581019,CST-NWS-college30.article\">Chicago Mayor Richard Daley<\/a> (whose <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_M._Daley\">highly impartial Wikipedia entry<\/a> is a hoot):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The runaway cost of a college education has been on the mayor&#8217;s radar screen for some time. Last year, Daley suggested a fifth year of high school to address a crisis that he warned threatens to reduce the American birthrate. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he suggested that colleges clean up their own act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They should cut half the courses. It would cut the cost down tremendously. What are the basic courses that you need in college? Cut some of the unnecessary courses out&#8221; to reduce administrative overhead and let students graduate sooner, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s&#8230; brilliant. While we&#8217;re at it, let me be the first to suggest dealing with the high cost of food in restaurants by cutting portion sizes in half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Inside Higher Ed, a brilliant new approach to the problem of high tuition costs, coutesy of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (whose highly impartial Wikipedia entry is a hoot): The runaway cost of a college education has been on the mayor&#8217;s radar screen for some time. Last year, Daley suggested a fifth year of high&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/02\/terrible-ideas-in-higher-ed-hi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terrible Ideas in Higher Ed: Hizzoner Da Mayor Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}