{"id":100049,"date":"2026-07-30T11:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=100049"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T15:18:01","slug":"ohio-governor-candidate-suggested-consolidating-universities-economists-think-its-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/07_30_2026\/ohio-governor-candidate-suggested-consolidating-universities-economists-think-its-a-bad-idea","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Governor Candidate Suggested Consolidating Universities. Economists Think It\u2019s a Bad Idea."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kevin Egan, a professor of economics, discusses the economic value of a college degree and the potential impact on commuter students of closing local higher education institutions.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a title=\"Original URL:\nhttps:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2026\/07\/27\/ohio-gov-candidate-suggested-consolidating-universities-economists-think-its-a-bad-idea\/\n\nClick to follow link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fohiocapitaljournal.com%2F2026%2F07%2F27%2Fohio-gov-candidate-suggested-consolidating-universities-economists-think-its-a-bad-idea%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CJonathan.Monk%40UToledo.Edu%7C3b48000bc0cb42b501d508deee4c390a%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C639210208848456131%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pWeFVI7reDyySqW1g13IbSs08%2BrDqFz%2Brh4dLTDwqoM%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"eaf91392-dc72-411c-b716-a6ea7d71f914\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 62, 126)\"><b><u>Ohio Governor Candidate Suggested Consolidating Universities. Economists Think It\u2019s a Bad Idea.<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kevin Egan, a professor of economics, discusses the economic value of a college degree and the potential impact on commuter students of closing local higher education institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[186],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100050,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100049\/revisions\/100050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}