Inside Higher Ed by Ryan Craig Colleges may be facing pressure to separate their credentialed learning from their other offerings, Ryan Craig writes. Our work-force development system, meanwhile, could learn a thing or two from higher education. In the past, I’ve been critical of bundles. In my 2015 book, College Disrupted: […]
Education Dive by Ben Unglesbee After failing once to undo Obama-era rules aimed at for-profits, the Ed Department has signaled it will try again. But a confusing regulatory landscape remains. Easy as undoing regulations might seem to government outsiders, they typically must go through the same process as writing new […]
Inside Higher Ed Heather Hiles, an entrepreneur and Gates Foundation alum, will lead the new institution, launching this fall with competency-based certificate programs for the state’s adults. By Mark Lieberman California’s new online community college has made a key hire, pending approval today from the institution’s Board of Trustees. Heather Hiles, an entrepreneur […]
CNS News By Gerard Scimeca It’s no secret how many Democrats in Washington openly condemn private, for-profit and non-profit colleges and universities that offer students specific, career-focused degrees. Many Democrats in Congress work feverishly to shut these schools down, and they will only be happy with the education version of Obamacare, […]
Miami Herald Op-Ed Article by Donald E. Graham www.Kaplanuniversity.edu I have spent decades at the top of two businesses that were juxtaposed on your front page last week: journalism and for-profit education. I had the honor of being publisher of The Washington Post for more than 20 years and the […]
Inside Higher Ed By Ashley Smith A Brookings Institution report examines what would happen if the U.S. Congress dropped a federal regulation that limits the share of federal revenue for-profit colleges can receive. The paper, which was released this month, examined the effects of the so-called 90-10 rule on for-profit, private and […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education By Sarah Brown The Education Department’s proposed regulations on Title IX, the federal gender-equity law, would provide colleges with some long-sought flexibility when responding to sexual-misconduct reports — but would make campus disciplinary proceedings far too legalistic and burdensome. That’s according to the public comments, […]
Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee When it comes to regulating for-profit colleges, Steve Gunderson, who heads the sector’s leading trade group, and the Center for American Progress’ Ben Miller disagree on a lot. But they are of the same mind on one thing: Regulatory “ping pong” doesn’t help anyone. “Ping pong” […]
Education Dive by Ben Unglesbee The Education Department is “not wedded” to the language it issued in proposed regulations being debated in an ongoing negotiated rulemaking process, Diane Auer Jones, the department’s principal deputy under secretary, told an audience of accreditation professionals in Washington on Tuesday. “Clearly we came to the table with some […]
Education Dive by Natalie Schwartz U of Utah cast the program as one way it can help students overcome financial barriers that could delay or even block their path to graduation. It joins a handful of other colleges to offer ISAs. In 2016, Purdue University became the first major […]