Career Education Review Jenny April 28, 2021 2021 3rd Place-Bronze Community Service Award Winner CNI College is honored to be selected as the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools (CAPPS) 2021 3rd Place-Bronze Community Service Award Winner. The CAPPS Excellence in Community Service Awards were inaugurated in 2016 to recognize […]
Los Angeles Times Nina Agrawal, Teresa Watanabe, Colleen Shalby April 22, 2021 The University of California and California State University announced Thursday that they will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on campus properties this fall once the Food and Drug Administration gives formal approval to the […]
Campus Safety Robin Hattersley-Gray April 20, 2021 OCR outlined plans to solicit the public’s input on Title IX regulations, ultimately leading to possible revisions through a notice of proposed rulemaking. Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has launched a comprehensive review of the Department’s regulations […]
Higher Ed Dive Hallie Busta April 22, 2021 Dive Brief: Proposed legislation from three House Democrats would codify and expand oversight of the process by which for-profit colleges convert to nonprofit status, a move several institutions have made in recent years. The For-Profit College Conversion Accountability Act would also require public notice […]
Forbes Richard Vedder April 19, 2021 When I wrote my first book on American higher education in 2004 (Going Broke By Degree: Why College Costs Too Much), I spoke rather enthusiastically about the then-rapidly growing for-profit higher education sector, suggesting traditional higher education could learn much from it and its attention to […]
Inside Higher Ed Alexis Gravely April 20, 2021 Clare McCann, former deputy director for federal higher education policy at New America, is returning to the U.S. Department of Education for a position in the office of the under secretary. The news was confirmed in a tweet by Kevin Carey, the think tank’s […]
Politico BIANCA QUILANTAN April 19, 2021 Where community colleges love seeing the administration push for free education, some four-year schools see an “existential threat.” Free community college, a big hit on the campaign trail, is a key piece of President Joe Biden’s plan to rebuild the economy, and projects a […]
NASFAA Hugh T. Ferguson April 16, 2021 James Kvaal’s nomination to serve as Department of Education (ED) under secretary cleared a procedural hurdle on Thursday with bipartisan accolades coming from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee. While members looked to garner additional insight into Kvaal’s higher education […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education Alexander C. Kafka March 3, 2021 Risk management has become an increasingly high-stakes enterprise for higher education in recent years. The Covid-19 pandemic, the accompanying economic strain, and political polarization have only made it more so. The Chronicle recently released a special report, “The New Risk […]
Inside Higher Ed Sara Weissman April 15, 2021 Enrollment at California Community Colleges fell even more last fall than an already shocking national average. Campus leaders hope to stem further declines as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The California Community College system had a 12 percent enrollment decline from fall 2019 to […]