Inside Higher Ed August 30, 2021 Doug Lederman Western accrediting agency’s new database, tapping into wide swath of federal information, better enables public scrutiny of the performance of the colleges it monitors. By design, accrediting agencies play a range of roles with the colleges and universities they oversee: partner in […]
Career Education Review Jenny August 30, 2021 New Grant Awarded through February 2027 CNI College is honored to announce continued accreditation from the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). Accreditation through the ABHES is comprised of an in-depth review of CNI College’s application, self-evaluation, ABHES on-site visit reports, the […]
Inside Higher Ed Elizabeth Redden August 27, 2021 The ruling faults the university’s analysis of the environmental impacts of increased enrollment as flawed and orders it not to further increase enrollment above 2020-21 levels. An Alameda County Superior Court judge has ordered the University of California, Berkeley, to freeze student enrollment. The […]
August 26,2021 A division of the court of appeals considers whether a 2019 amendment to the Consumer Protection Act, section 6-1-103, C.R.S. 2020 — which provides that an action brought by the Attorney General “does not require proof that a deceptive trade practice has a significant public impact” — applies […]
U.S. Department of Education August 26,2021 Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced it will make $1.1 billion in closed school discharges available to an additional 115,000 borrowers who attended the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute (ITT). This decision is based on a new review of the problems leading up to […]
Newsweek Tom Fish August 26, 2021 Having a safe college environment is critical for students. College data and review site Niche has analyzed data and student reviews to look at which campuses are the safest. Natalie Tsay from the site tells Newsweek: “Year after year we see that campus safety is […]
Inside Higher Ed John Clark August 22, 2021 A guest post by John Clark, a senior consultant at WGU Labs and adjunct instructor at Dominican University in River Forest, Ill. In a recent piece, Edward Maloney and Joshua Kim lament the “rush of big money into higher education,” which portends the […]
U.S. Department of Education August 20, 2021 Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced that the office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) has retroactively waived interest on loans held by more than 47,000 current and former active-duty service members. This action was made possible by a data-matching agreement with the […]
Committee on Education & Labor August 24, 2021 Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement in response to the Education Department’s announcement that it will default to full forgiveness for defrauded student loan borrowers, abandoning the Trump administration’s partial-relief formula: “Devos’ […]
Newsweek Tom Fish August 24, 2021 College can help students kick-start their chosen careers. While working hard to get good grades is key to gaining a great salary, certain U.S. colleges appear to offer an edge in potential earning power. Economic modelers have crunched the numbers by quantifying average wages […]