Inside Higher Ed Representative Bobby Scott, the House education committee chairman, suggested Tuesday in a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that her department had illegally awarded federal aid to two ineligible for-profit college programs operated by the defunct Dream Center. Scott, a Virginia Democrat, also threatened to issue subpoenas if the […]
Inside Higher Ed Students at Thomas Jefferson University were surprised to receive stern notices about unpaid bills in early September. The emailed notices said students had to arrange to pay outstanding tuition bills in the next six days or they would be dropped from fall classes, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The college, which […]
National Review The accusations don’t stand up to even simple scrutiny. For-profit colleges take the blame for a lot of bad trends in our higher-education system. Sometimes it’s deserved. But too frequently the blame is driven by ideology and not objective analysis. And lest we assume that the blue-chip think […]
Inside Higher Ed By Madeline St. Amour Veterans disproportionately hold nondegree certificates or certifications compared to nonveterans, according a report from the Strada Education Network. Working with Gallup and Lumina Foundation, Strada surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. veterans to look at their education and work experiences. Certificates boosted employability and earnings […]
Inside Higher Ed By Lindsay McKenzie The education-technology services company Zovio is considering selling Ashford University. Zovio, formerly Bridgepoint Education, has been working for several months to convert Ashford from a for-profit to a nonprofit institution. The company Monday shared the results of a review by the U.S. Department of Education that considered […]
Inside Higher Ed By Madeline St. Amour California governor Gavin Newsom signed a suite of bills affecting higher education Friday, including Assembly Bill 943, which opens up a large pot of state funds to be used for emergency student aid. The bill, written by Democratic assemblyman David Chiu of San Francisco and […]
Hechinger Report HARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Alec Scicchitano may have been considered middle class, but it was still going to be hard for him to afford college. The son of a single mother who’s a writer, Scicchitano knew he “needed to go to a university that would give really good financial […]
Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain A new report from the U.S. Department of Education used a representative national sample of 90,000 undergraduate college students in 2015-16 to examine the demographics of low-income students, the financial aid they received and the price of attendance for the institutions they attended. The data from the […]
PBS.org FONTANA, Calif. — At a steel factory dwarfed by the adjacent Auto Club Speedway, Fernando Esparza is working toward his next promotion. Esparza is a 46-year-old mechanic for Evolution Fresh, a subsidiary of Starbucks that makes juices and smoothies. He’s taking a class in industrial computing taught by a […]