{"id":8562,"date":"2018-08-01T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2018-08-22T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:28:52","slug":"8562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/01\/8562\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeanne Boeh discusses the value of a college degree with WCCO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8564\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-01-at-9.12.42-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8564 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-01-at-9.12.42-AM-300x168.png\" alt=\"Jeanne Boeh on WCCO\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-01-at-9.12.42-AM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-01-at-9.12.42-AM-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-01-at-9.12.42-AM.png 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne Boeh on WCCO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeanne Boeh,\u00a0professor of economics and business department chair at Augsburg University,\u00a0recently spoke with WCCO about the rising cost of a college education.<\/p>\n<p>Boeh noted that a college degree is still worth it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a different\u00a0<span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">experience<\/span><\/span>\u00a0than it was 20 years ago. All the amenities have improved. There is more support for students. The dorms are better. The food is better. The kind of help students need is more available. All of that costs money,\u201d Boeh told reporter Angela Davis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2018\/07\/25\/why-is-college-so-expensive\/\">Read and watch the full report<\/a>\u00a0at the WCCO site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jeanne Boeh,\u00a0professor of economics and business department chair at Augsburg University,\u00a0recently spoke with WCCO about the rising cost of a college education. Boeh noted that a college degree is still worth it. \u201cIt is a different\u00a0experience\u00a0than it was 20 years ago. All the amenities have improved. There is more support for students. The dorms &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}