PE.com March 12 was quite a day for higher education. On Capitol Hill, not one but two hearings were taking place; one on simplifying the form everyone who wants federal student aid must complete, the other on a very familiar theme: “Oversight of For-Profit Colleges: Protecting Students and Taxpayer Dollars from Predatory Practices.” […]
Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee Dive Brief: With enrollment and tuition revenue under pressure across the country, many colleges — especially small, private nonprofits — are under financial stress and could look to merge or face closure. Of those scenarios, closure is more likely given the difficulties in merging colleges, […]
Forbes By Neal McCluskey If the Varsity Blues bribery and cheating scandal has done anything positive, it has been to shine some light on a basic reality: very little in higher education is truly nonprofit. It turns out some analysts—and residents—of the ivory tower have been making this point for years. But […]
InsideHigherEd By Ashley A. Smith The California Community Colleges Board of Governors agreed Monday to end the use of placement exams in the system. The board was required to make the change because of a new state law that took effect in January 2018. The bill requires the community college system to be […]
InsideHigherEd By Greg Toppo Tolstoy famously wrote that all happy families are alike, while each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. A new white paper suggests that the Tolstoy rule may not apply when it comes to at-risk small colleges: they’re all basically unhappy in the same way. “Long-vulnerable” colleges tend […]
InsideHigherEd By Doug Lederman and Mark Lieberman From Massachusetts to California, as many as two dozen state university systems, individual flagship campuses and other public universities are talking publicly (or quietly) about undertaking ambitious online learning initiatives. Some are focused on enrollment or revenue growth, some on better serving the millions of […]
EducationDive The latter part of 2018 made for a horrendous close to the year for a handful of operators in the for-profit college sector. Education Corporation of America shut down its 70-plus campuses essentially overnight after losing its accreditation in early December. Vatterott, a smaller but not insignificant player, also shuttered that month. […]
EdSource By Larry Gordon California’s community colleges are making some gains toward ambitious goals of getting more students to complete degrees and transfer to universities but the small improvements last year were “disappointing” and show that much work remains ahead, the system’s leader said Monday. “While there is some progress, it […]
Education Dive In a hotel conference room in the nation’s capital, the higher ed world’s gatekeepers were gathering over coffee, tea and bottled water to talk about their work just as the Education Department was getting underway with an attempt to overhaul it on a breadth and scale rarely seen. […]
Education Dive Dive Brief: JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that it is giving $350 million over five years to community colleges and career training programs. It extends the investment firm’s five-year, $250 million initiative launched in 2013, with funds allocated to develop and pilot educational training programs, reinforce existing education and training systems […]