{"id":11464,"date":"2015-10-03T02:22:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/according-to-a-recent-report-by-moodys-investor-2\/"},"modified":"2015-10-03T02:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T02:22:40","slug":"according-to-a-recent-report-by-moodys-investor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/according-to-a-recent-report-by-moodys-investor-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to a recent report by Moody\u2019s Investor Service, the United States could see as many as 15 colleges shuttered annually by 2017 (while many less-unlucky colleges are expected to merge.) That\u2019s triple the closure rate typical over the last decade, which saw an average of five colleges close annually. \u201cSweet Briar probably will not be the last to flirt with closure,\u201d reported Fortune magazine last month, noting that Moody\u2019s had ranked three dozen colleges\u2019 bonds as either junk, on the cusp of junk status, or \u201clow investment grade.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/10\/demise-of-small-private-colleges\/408592\/\">Moody\u2019s Predicts That America\u2019s Small, Private, Liberal-Arts Colleges Are on Their Way Out &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent report by Moody\u2019s Investor Service, the United States could see as many as 15 colleges shuttered annually by 2017 (while many less-unlucky colleges are expected to merge.) That\u2019s triple the closure rate typical over the last decade, which saw an average of five colleges close annually. \u201cSweet Briar probably will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2YU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}