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From YouTube: Oplerno ◐ The State of Higher Education
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Rob give his thoughts on the state of Higher Education in the US and the World. Why are US institutes in trouble? What can they do to fix it? Rob is in the unique position that he talks almost daily with students, adjuncts, tenured faculty, administrative staff and university
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A
I
want
to
talk
with
you
guys
a
little
bit
about
what
I'm,
seeing
in
terms
of
the
slowdown
in
higher
education
and
that's
happening.
Basically
from
two
things.
One
is
I'm
sending
out
emails
are
making
a
lot
of
calls
to
different
institutions
to
get
to
get
work
or
to
get
in
to
get
involved
in
meetings
so
that
we
can
sell
our
materials
to
people
in
two
people
at
these
institutions.
A
Again
thinking
about
looking
at
us
like
Pearson's
arm,
but
with
the
professor
and
what
the
reaction
that
I'm
getting
right
now
and
that
is
coming
both
from
people
who
were
you
know,
institutions
that
were
approaching,
but
also
people
on
the
outside
that
I
keep
in
contact
with.
Is
that
we're
starting
to
see
a
slowdown
in
the
US
economically
and
that's
doing
two
things?
One
is
that
it's
causing
businesses
to
hold
off
on
doing
professional
development
for
their
arm
for
their
employees?
A
Basically
because
they're
not
sure
what
the
economy
is
going
to
be
like
in
the
next
six
months,
so
they're,
not
there
they're.
Looking
for
the
ability
to
trim
budgets
in
or
eliminate
budgets
in
particular
kinds
of
categories,
and
so
businesses
are
being
really
really
sensitive
to
arm,
not
getting
involved
too
much
in
some
long
term
pieces
unless
it's
some
some
specialized
fields
on
where
they
have
really
critical
needs,
because
they're
trying
to
you
know
either
replace
employees
or
they're
trying
to
build
capacity
now
on
the
higher
end
institutional
side.
A
What
worse?
What
I'm
getting
messages
about
is
in
the
Northeast,
but
also
from
some
stuff
overseas.
Latin
America,
especially,
is
one.
The
dollar
strengthening
is
making
it
extremely
making
our
courses
actually
now
quite
expensive
for
people,
and
that
is
something
that
we're
not
gonna.
We're
going
to
have
to
deal
with.
You
know,
maybe
in
some
sort
of
dynamic
pricing
piece,
but
it's
going
to
be
really
really
tricky
when
economies
are
crashing.
A
A
Especially
for
people
who
may
be
paying
in
dollars,
okay
now
dollars
for
people
outside
in
certain
places
in
the
world
kind
of
like
euros
to
depending
on,
is
that
a
storehouse
of
dollars
allows
them
to
hedge
against
the
devaluation
of
their
local
currencies.
So
people
are
more
likely
to
hold
on
to
those
for
as
long
as
possible
and
not
want
to
use
their
dollars
unless
they
absolutely
have
to,
and
they
also
want
to
get
ahold
of
dollars
rather
than
having
to
use
the
local
currency.
A
So
it's
going
to
be
really
the
the
overseas
market
is
going
to
be
trickier
to
get
to
I.
Don't
I've
got
to
be
thinking
about
how
to
how
to
deal
with
that,
but
it's
tricky
so
foreign
students
coming
to
the
US.
It's
going
to
be
tougher
for
them
to
afford
to
afford
that
now
higher
end
institutions
in
the
Northeast
are
really
trying
to
recruit
lots
of
people
from
outside
the
US
to
come
to
those
institutions
because
they
pay
full
tuition
and
they're
not
paying
using
any
kind
of
federal
aid.
A
The
second
piece
is
sticker
shock
is
now
hitting
when
you
talk
with
students,
and
you
talk
with
people
when
they're
talk
when
they're
dealing
with
their
student
loans
and
thinking
about
how
much
money
they're
going
to
have
to
take
take
on
take
out
to
pay
for
that.
The
federal
loan
budgets,
the
federal
loans
have
a
certain
limit
is
to
the
amount
that
you
can
take
out
from
the
Stafford
subsidized
or
Stafford
unsubsidized.
Then
the
rest
of
those
student
loans
are
taken
from
the
private
sector.
A
A
They
still
are
making
their
bread
and
butter
arm
making
most
of
their
money
on
people
who
come
to
the
institution's
stay
there
for
four
years
between
the
ages
of
18
and
21,
and
it's
becoming
increasingly
difficult
for
them
to
get
ahold
of
it's
going
to
be
come
increasingly
difficult
for
them
to
get
ahold
of
those
of
those
students.
That's
leading
to
a
real
conservativism
and
shut
down
in
terms
of
what
people
want
to
what
risks
they
want
to
take
and
how
they
want
to
grow
on
their
outreach,
they're
so
concerned
with
it.
A
It's
almost
as
if
people
are
just
trying
to
keep
their
heads
down
and
keep
the
system
going
for
as
long
as
possible,
but
I
getting
more
and
more
of
a
sense
of
some
really
big
shake
ups
that
are
going
to
happen
in
the
next
on
several
years
and
when
the
shake-up
start
to
happen
will
be
able
to
take
advantage
of
them.
But
right
now,
let's
not
delude
ourselves.
We're
kind
of
like
on
the
cutting
edge
and
in
the
wilderness.
Here.
A
Being
much
more
choosy
about
who
they're
taking
their
classes
from
that
is
something
that
is
not
yes
on
the
radar
and
not
something
that
students
are
pushing
for
they're
still
going
to
the
you
know,
they're
still
doing
the
traditional
purchasing
they're
still
going
to
you
know
using
the
federal
subsidized
and
unsubsidized
loans,
they're
still
going
for
private
loans,
that
they
can
get
them
they're,
not
thinking
about
what
it's
going
to
cost
the
service
that
loan,
and
that
is
creating
a
mismatch
because
again,
I'll
play
no.
We
don't
like
that.
A
We
don't
want
you
to
go
into
debt,
for
your
education,
we're
keeping
the
cost
low.
So
you
can
finance
this
wall
you're
working!
Okay!
We
want
transfer
credits
to
other
institutions.
All
of
those
things
are
kind
of
like
you
know,
flying
against
the
the
against
the
prevailing
wisdom.
But
you
know
our
system
will
work.
A
We
just
were
just
going
to
be
more
patient
and
keep
you
know,
pushing
pushing
and
you
know,
keep
going
as,
as
you
know,
for
the
foreseeable
future
for
a
long
for
a
long
time,
and
there
are
some
really
cool
things
which
we
can
talk
about
next
week
when
those
meetings
are
done.
That
give
me
a
lot
of
you
know,
they're
giving
me
hope,
we've
got,
you
know,
students
registering
for
classes
or
helped
me
now,
students
in
particular
classes
at
Burlington
College.
A
All
those
things
are
good
and
we're
just
going
to
keep
we're
just
going
to
keep
plugging
along
and
you
know
but
realize
hey.
You
know
this
is
a
revolution
and
we're
going
to
have
to
push
hard
for
end
of
sermon.
But
I
thought
I
would
let
you
guys
know
a
little
bit
about
what
the
what
I'm
thinking
about
you
know
the
team
meeting
if
you've
got
comments,
send
them
to
me
because
I'd
like
to
know
if
you
think,
if
you
agree
with
me
or
if
you
disagree
with,
let
me
know.