{"id":1757,"date":"2006-12-20T13:18:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2006-12-20T13:18:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T18:18:06","slug":"what-is-the-price-of-pursuing-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/what-is-the-price-of-pursuing-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the price of pursuing excellence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s NYTimes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/20\/education\/20colleges.html\">&#8220;Public Universities Chase Excellence, at a Price&#8221;<\/a> focuses on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufl.edu\/\">Florida<\/a> but gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/carolinacovenant\/\">positive mentions <\/a>of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/\">UNC<\/a>. Even with a positive mention there are things for us to be aware of there too. A quick but highly relevant read.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, I was moved by <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1756\">the ASU\/Google article<\/a> below to pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/chronicle\/01\/10.18.01\/Rhodes_book.html\">Frank Rhodes&#8217; The Creation of the Future<\/a> only about an hour before noticing the NYTimes article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s NYTimes, &#8220;Public Universities Chase Excellence, at a Price&#8221; focuses on Florida but gives positive mentions of UNC. Even with a positive mention there are things for us to be aware of there too. A quick but highly relevant read. Coincidentally, I was moved by the ASU\/Google article below to pick up Frank Rhodes&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}