Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf May 13, 2021 Dive Brief: President Joe Biden will nominate attorney Catherine Lhamon to lead the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, a post she held with the Obama administration. The office dictates federal policy concerning sexual misconduct and LGBTQ and racial discrimination in education. […]
Career Education Review Jenny May 14, 2021 Today’s action delivers on President Biden’s campaign commitment to stop for-profit institutions from profiteering off students Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov Today, the office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) in the U.S. Department of Education (ED) informed Florida Coastal School of Law that its […]
Campus Technology Rhea Kelly May 13, 2021 In a recent survey, nearly three-quarters of students — 73 percent — said they would prefer to take some of their courses fully online post-pandemic. However, only half of faculty (53 percent) felt the same about teaching online. The fourth and final installment […]
Higher Ed Dive Natalie Schwartz May 12, 2021 Dive Brief: Career Education Colleges and Universities, an organization representing for-profit schools, urged Maryland’s higher education regulators in a letter this week to interpret the state’s recently passed 90/10 law the same way as federal statute. Maryland legislators passed a law last year requiring […]
Inside Higher Ed Sara Weissman May 13, 2021 A state audit found that Calbright College, California’s online community college, graduated just 12 out of over 900 enrolled students during the 2019-20 academic year. Lawmakers are considering closing the college. Calbright College, the first all-online community college in California, enrolled 904 […]
CECU May 10, 2021 Arlington, Va. — Career Education Colleges and Universities (CECU) today sent a letter to the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) recommending that MHEC interpret Maryland state 90/10 laws to be consonant with the new federal 90/10 law, as amended by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. […]
NASFAA Hugh T. Ferguson May 11, 2021 On Tuesday, the Department of Education (ED) released new guidance on the third round of Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) grants authorized by the American Rescue Plan. The department also released institutional allocations for HEERF III grants to public and nonprofit institutions, as well as proprietary institutions. […]
Higher Ed Dive Hallie Busta May 11, 2021 Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that it is distributing more than $36 billion in funding to colleges through the latest federal coronavirus rescue package. The department issued a final rule, which Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told reporters on Monday will enable all students […]
NBC News David Paul Morris May 7, 2021 “The questions are, can I go back to my old employer, and can the consumer go back to the old storefront?” said one labor expert. The U.S. economy added just 266,000 jobs in April — a mere fraction of economists’ expectations of nearly a […]
Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman May 6, 2021 Judges have dismissed many of the cases seeking refunds for shifts to virtual learning, but some are going to trial, and at least two colleges have settled. In the year since COVID-19 forced most colleges and universities to shut their physical campuses, […]