{"id":96,"date":"2023-03-15T08:59:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/?p=96"},"modified":"2023-03-15T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:00:24","slug":"meeting-the-challenges-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/2023\/03\/meeting-the-challenges-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting the challenges of higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Interview with Jason Osborne (Miami University)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Q: What are the key challenges facing HE institutions in the US?<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firstly, thank you, Deepak, for interviewing me. Much appreciated, and I hope this is useful for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Higher education in the US in 2023 faces challenges that reflect global pressures and internal stressors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While working as Provost and in other HE leadership positions, I\u2019ve seen the speed at which challenges have been coming for educational institutions in the US. Some, like the COVID-19 pandemic, were utterly unpredictable.&nbsp; Others, like the \u201cdemographic cliff\u201d and reduced public funding for higher education, have been ongoing for decades.&nbsp; Yet it seems as though the rate of change has increased exponentially over the last decade or so, particularly since the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Higher education faces many simultaneous, serious challenges.&nbsp; Yet as my colleague Brent Shock and I discuss in our recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/admissions\/views\/2023\/02\/06\/colleges-worry-about-enrollment-should-focus-missions-opinion\">Inside Higher Ed article<\/a>, none of them are insurmountable if institutions are strategic and focus on their core mission and values.&nbsp; Let\u2019s talk about a few that have been top of mind recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Jason Osborne (Miami University) Q: What are the key challenges facing HE institutions in the US?&nbsp; Firstly, thank you, Deepak, for interviewing me. Much appreciated, and I hope this is useful for you. Higher education in the US in 2023 faces challenges that reflect global pressures and internal stressors. While working as Provost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/jason-w-osborne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}