{"id":209126,"date":"2024-05-14T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/?p=209126"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:49:23","slug":"interview-with-inside-higher-ed-is-college-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/2024\/05\/14\/interview-with-inside-higher-ed-is-college-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Inside Higher Ed: Is College Worth It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of my favorite historical figures, Teddy Roosevelt, famously spoke about \u201cthe man in the arena\u201d and how while it\u2019s easy to criticize others, it takes courage to be the one facing challenges head-on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve thought about that speech a lot as higher education continues to come under intense scrutiny. I strongly believe in staunchly defending the role of universities as engines of public good that bring enormous value to their communities and the nation. But I also believe in self-reflection and admitting our faults. I share more about this with Inside Higher Ed in <a href=\"https:\/\/narratives.insidehighered.com\/montclair-state-university-is-college-worth-it-president-interview\/index.html?utm_campaign=IHESocialEditorial&amp;utm_content=jonathan_koppell,_preside&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=linkedin\">this article<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite historical figures, Teddy Roosevelt, famously spoke about \u201cthe man in the arena\u201d and how while it\u2019s easy to criticize others, it takes courage to be the one facing challenges head-on.\u00a0 I\u2019ve thought about that speech a lot as higher education continues to come under intense scrutiny. I strongly believe in staunchly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":209127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-162_news-faculty-staff-can-use","category-9_news-students-can-use","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209126","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=209126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209128,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209126\/revisions\/209128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}