{"id":2356,"date":"2009-07-20T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T13:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2009-07-20T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T13:49:32","slug":"trade-school-enrollment-skyrocketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/20\/trade-school-enrollment-skyrocketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade School Enrollment Skyrocketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2362 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/x-ray.jpg\" alt=\"x-ray\" width=\"183\" height=\"140\" \/>Trade schools specializing in everything from the cosmetology to radiologics are finding their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-07-19-tradeschools_N.htm\">enrollment growing during the economic downturn<\/a>.\u00a0 Enrollees, schools are discovering, are nearly twice the age of the typical enrolled student; schools believe they are professionals looking for a career change.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/about_boston_university_metropolitan_college\/welcome.html\">Dean Jay Halfond<\/a>, of BU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/\">Metropolitan College<\/a>, can discuss these recent surges at trade schools and can be reached at 617-353-3010 or jhalfond@bu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade schools specializing in everything from the cosmetology to radiologics are finding their enrollment growing during the economic downturn.\u00a0 Enrollees, schools are discovering, are nearly twice the age of the typical enrolled student; schools believe they are professionals looking for a career change.\u00a0 Dean Jay Halfond, of BU&#8217;s Metropolitan College, can discuss these recent surges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[598,1484],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}