USA TODAY Erin Richards and Chris Quintana February 11, 2021 A Senate committee advanced the nomination of Miguel Cardona as the next U.S. education secretary Thursday, putting him a step closer to guiding the reopening of more schools, albeit under a scaled-back plan announced by the White House this week. Cardona, the commissioner of […]
URBAN INSTITUTE Kristin Blagg, Erica Blom, Robert Kelchen, Carina Chien February 11, 2021 Abstract Policymakers have expressed increased interest in program-level higher education accountability measures as a supplement to, or in place of, institution-level metrics. But it is unclear what these measures should look like. In this report, we assess the ways program-level […]
HIGHER ED DIVE Jeremy Bauer-Wolf February 10, 2021 Dive Brief: The Biden administration has withdrawn a rule that would have required colleges that participate in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program to disclose if they had financial ties to a Chinese culture education program that frequently partners with U.S. institutions. Political pressures surrounding […]
Forbes Allison Griffin February 10, 2021 After less than a month in office, President Biden has made his priorities for postsecondary education clear. And, notably, this week, he charged two leading advocates – two women – to deliver the message. Yesterday, Carmel Martin, deputy director for economic mobility on the White […]
Career Education Review Jenny February 11, 2021 Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Democrats advanced their left wing partisan COVID-19 budget reconciliation scheme along party lines: “Once again, Democrats are ignoring vulnerable, hardworking Americans, choosing instead to favor left wing special interests […]
Military Times Leo Shane III February 10, 2021 Included in congressional Democrats’ massive pandemic relief plan are rules that could upend for-profit colleges’ ability to recruit and enroll veterans in degree programs by limiting how administrators count GI Bill dollars in their finances. Advocates have long pushed for the move as a […]
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Dan Bauman February 5, 2021 Colleges and universities closed out 2020 with continued job losses, resulting in a 13-percent drop since last February. It was a dispiriting coda to a truly brutal year for higher ed’s labor force. Since the World Health Organization declared a […]
HIGHER ED DIVE Natalie Schwartz February 4, 2021 Dive Brief: California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week proposed guaranteed admission to the state’s four-year universities for certain community college graduates. Starting in 2023, first-time, first-year community college students would be able to select either a California State University or University of California campus […]
Inside Higher Ed Emma Whitford February 5, 2021 State sociopolitical factors strongly influenced four-year public colleges in their reopening decisions, new working paper finds. County sociopolitical factors played into decision making at private four-year colleges and two-year public colleges. In fall reopening announcements, colleges and universities emphasized student and employee […]
Inside Higher Ed Lilah Burke February 5, 2021 Of the 650,000 Californians who are incarcerated, on parole or on probation, fewer than 20,000 are enrolled in some form of higher education, a new report from the Campaign for College Opportunity suggests. Through focus groups with formerly incarcerated people in California who attended […]