Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf May 25, 2023 Dive Brief: Two House committees will investigate whether the U.S. Department of Education was “improperly influenced by political considerations” when it settled the Sweet v. Cardona class-action case, which cleared the way for $6 billion in student loan cancellations for 200,000-plus borrowers. Those borrowers […]
Idaho Ed News Kurt Liebich May 23, 2023 My term as president of the Idaho State Board of Education ended last month. The final months of my term were spent immersing myself in the details involved in negotiations between the University of Idaho and the University of Phoenix, which ultimately […]
Inside Higher Ed Susan D’Agostino May 25, 2023 The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations, this week. The report acknowledges that the rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) advances is impacting society […]
NASFAA Hugh T. Ferguson May 25, 2023 The House by a vote of 218-203 advanced legislation that would overturn President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan and end the pause on federal student loan payments. The measure — first introduced as a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution in March — now heads […]
UB University Business Alcino Donadel May 24, 2023 When broken down by sector, bachelor’s degree-seeking programs for students only experienced a positive growth rate at for-profit institutions. “Graduate/professional programs,” on the other hand, declined across all sectors. When aggregating every higher education sector, bachelor’s degrees and graduate credentials were the […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott May 25, 2023 Republicans once again used the hearing, which revealed little new information about the actual policies, to decry the administration’s efforts to overhaul the student loan system. Picking up where they left off at last week’s hearing with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Republicans […]
Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf May 25, 2023 Dive Brief: House Republicans aired frustrations with the Biden administration’s policies around the federal student loan system during a stormy hearing of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development on Wednesday. Republicans blasted James Kvaal, the U.S. Department of Education’s top higher […]
NASFAA Hugh T. Ferguson May 25, 2023 A pair of House Republican leaders are accusing the Biden administration of seeking to “hijack” federal courts in order to advance a borrower defense settlement, and have launched an investigation into the Department of Education’s (ED) processes for carrying out the relief. Reps. […]
Phil Hill and Associates Phil Hill May 22, 2023 With the release of the proposed Gainful Employment rules by the US Department of Education (ED), there has been quite a bit of discussion online about whether the exclusion of nonprofit degree programs is fair, based on legal precedent, and wise policy. This […]
McGuire Woods May 22, 2023 On May 19, 2023, the Department of Education (ED) published in the Federal Register proposed regulations concerning gainful employment (GE), threatening to cut off federal financial aid for approximately 1,800 career training programs at community colleges, public universities, private-nonprofit institutions and proprietary institutions. See 88 Fed. Reg. […]