{"id":8401,"date":"2011-05-04T17:19:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T01:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=8401"},"modified":"2011-05-04T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T01:19:15","slug":"the-university-has-no-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/05\/the-university-has-no-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"The University Has No Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/features\/college-education-2011-5\/\">The University Has No Clothes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The notion that a college degree is essentially worthless has become one of the year\u2019s most fashionable ideas, with two prominent venture capitalists (Cornell \u201989 and Stanford \u201989, by the way) leading the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Pity the American parent! Already beleaguered by depleted 401(k)s and gutted real-estate values, Ponzi schemes and toxic paper, burst bubbles and bear markets, he is now being asked to contend with a new specter: that college, the perennial hope for the next generation, may not be worth the price of the sheepskin on which it prints its degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Magazine: The University Has No Clothes The notion that a college degree is essentially worthless has become one of the year\u2019s most fashionable ideas, with two prominent venture capitalists (Cornell \u201989 and Stanford \u201989, by the way) leading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2011\/05\/the-university-has-no-clothes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747,2255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-corporate-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8402,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions\/8402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}