{"id":1523,"date":"2012-12-06T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2012-12-06T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T16:26:07","slug":"is-college-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/is-college-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Scribd to Ask: &#8220;Is College Worth It?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates provides a good overview of the challenges facing higher education.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Is College Worth It? on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/113360662\/Is-College-Worth-It\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">Is College Worth It?<\/a><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/113360662\/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-6szi53pd0u1r48o5pxv\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.77906976744186\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_51501\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of us actually working in higher education are already painfully aware of these realities. This is a good resource to share with people outside the academy. Social media makes this easier than ever. Gates has published this presentation on <a href=\"http:\/\/scribd.com\/\">Scribd<\/a>, a document-sharing website. Scribd offers a number of tools that make it easy for people to share documents on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or via embedding as I've done here. Get a free Scribd account and you can publish documents there as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates provides a good overview of the challenges facing higher education. Is College Worth It? Most of us actually working in higher education are already painfully aware of these realities. This is a good resource to share with people outside the academy. Social media makes this easier than ever. Gates has published this presentation <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/is-college-worth-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Using Scribd to Ask: &#8220;Is College Worth It?&#8221;\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[144,168,280],"class_list":{"0":"post-1523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social","7":"tag-financial-issues","8":"tag-higher-education","9":"tag-scribd","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-oz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8453,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/olc-conference-highlights\/","url_meta":{"origin":1523,"position":0},"title":"OLC Conference Highlights","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"October 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Karen Nichols I'm back from Orlando and so excited to try, share and continue to learn about all of the presentation topics from the 21st Annual Online Learning Consortium International Conference 2015. 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