KFOX14 Erika Castillo February 14, 2022 EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — The sound of success for many people has changed when it comes to seeking education after high school or later in life. A growing need for technical workers across the country has triggered a wave of higher enrollment in trade schools. […]
CECU February 14, 2022 Arlington, VA – A report released earlier today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute, reveals that if the Obama administration’s gainful employment debt-to-earnings test were applied to all programs at all higher education institutions, then 51% of failing programs would […]
Texas Public Policy Foundation Research Andrew Gillen, Ph.D. February 2022 Executive Summary Higher education needs more accountability, and a promising approach was a set of federal regulations called gainful employment, which sought to identify and terminate federal financial aid for college programs that left students with excessive student loan debt […]
Third Way February 10, 2022 In January, the US Department of Education (Department) began a negotiated rulemaking process to determine which career education programs—certifications or degrees like those that prepare students to become auto mechanics, elevator technicians, or medical assistants—are worthy of federal funding due to their ability to provide […]
Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf February 4, 2022 Dive Brief: Florida’s public colleges would be required to change accreditors and then do so again every five years under a new bill introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. The proposal follows the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, […]
Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik February 10, 2022 Education Department sets out some ideas, but they are still a long way from completion. One idea is to require all colleges to report some information on their outcomes. The U.S. Education Department has proposed to again impose regulations to measure the gainful employment […]
National Review Steven Taylor February 10, 2022 If regulators are going to start asking if some kinds of higher education are actually worth it, it would be pointless to exempt others from scrutiny. Colleges and universities proudly flaunt their “nonprofit” status while many of their graduates are mired in debt and their highest-paid […]
Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf February 7, 2022 Dive Brief: Sixteen experts and advocacy organizations in higher education are calling for stricter U.S. Department of Education oversight of accreditors, particularly in how they handle colleges with poor student outcomes. The groups and individuals wrote to the Education Department late last month recommending […]
Higher Ed Dive February 7, 2022 Natalie Schwartz Sen. Elizabeth Warren and two other senators asked eight OPMs for information about their businesses, citing concerns about tuition-share deals. Last year, a decade-old $115,000 online master’s degree in social work made waves. The two-year program, at the University of Southern California, left […]
Committee on Education & Labor February 3, 2022 What You Should Know About the Levin Amendment Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Print this Page Share by Email WASHINGTON, D.C., February 3, 2022 Democrats are trying to include a troubling amendment in their China bill that will give the Biden administration unprecedented control […]