{"id":208985,"date":"2023-07-24T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/?p=208985"},"modified":"2023-11-17T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T13:48:38","slug":"president-koppell-appears-on-the-key-podcast-with-inside-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/2023\/07\/24\/president-koppell-appears-on-the-key-podcast-with-inside-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"President Koppell Appears on The Key Podcast with Inside Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I recently spoke with<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Times Higher Education Campus editor Sara Custer about the skepticism of higher education; according to a recent Gallup study, only 36% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in higher education, down 20 percentage points from 2015. As leaders in higher ed, it\u2019s on us to rebuild that trust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re steadfast in our commitment to doing that at Montclair. I shared with Sara several of our focus areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Improving accessibility to a quality education while rejecting the notion that accessibility and excellence can\u2019t go hand in hand;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our commitment to addressing the needs of the community while providing hands-on learning experiences for students;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our decision to merge with Bloomfield College to support a vital institution with financial difficulties;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our mission to not just welcome diverse student bodies to our campus, but to help all of them succeed, finish their degrees, and realize the lifelong benefits of their education.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/podcasts\/key-podcast\/2023\/07\/24\/bonus-episode-campus-interview-montclair-states-jonathan-koppell\">Click here to listen to the episode.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently spoke with Times Higher Education Campus editor Sara Custer about the skepticism of higher education; according to a recent Gallup study, only 36% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in higher education, down 20 percentage points from 2015. As leaders in higher ed, it\u2019s on us to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":208925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-76_alumni-news-and-events","category-162_news-faculty-staff-can-use","category-9_news-students-can-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209009,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208985\/revisions\/209009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}