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FAFSA Opens Today. Here’s What’s New on This Year’s Financial Aid Form

FAFSA Opens Today. Here’s What’s New on This Year’s Financial Aid Form

Time.com College financial aid season kicks off today, October 1, as the 2019-2020 Free Application for Federal Financial Aid opens for filing. Anyone who wants to access the billions of dollars of federal financial aid awarded each year—including grants, loans, and work study—has to complete the FAFSA. The information you […]

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College Scorecard Drops National Comparison Data

College Scorecard Drops National Comparison Data

Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum In its latest update to the College Scorecard, the Education Department has dropped data putting key outcomes measures for individual colleges in context. The department is making those changes as it pushes transparency offered by the Scorecard as an alternative to accountability provisions in the gainful-employment […]

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Continued Agency Recognition for ACICS

Continued Agency Recognition for ACICS

ACICS.org Senior Department Official Recommends Continued Agency Recognition for ACICS ACICS Compliant with 19 of 21 Criteria with 12 Months to Demonstrate Compliance with Two Criteria On September 28, the Senior Department Official (SDO) at the U.S. Department of Education released a detailed decision determining that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges […]

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Sacramento Ultrasound Institute Partnered With JIUN Corporation to Launch New PACS Server

Sacramento Ultrasound Institute Partnered With JIUN Corporation to Launch New PACS Server

Career Education Review Sacramento Ultrasound Institute has announced the launch of, SonicDICOM PACS, its new Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) after partnering with JIUN Corporation, a software company headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan. The new PACS features a web-based DICOM Viewer and DICOM Server that is accessible online through SUI’s Student […]

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California Community Colleges will Continue Offering Bachelor’s Degrees

California Community Colleges will Continue Offering Bachelor’s Degrees

Education Dive Dive Brief: California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that will extend through July 2026 an initiative allowing the state’s 15 community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees that meet the needs of employers in their region, a San Diego television station reported. The law requires that the two-year colleges […]

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Ed Department Officials Say Their Focus is on Better College Data, Less Regulation

Ed Department Officials Say Their Focus is on Better College Data, Less Regulation

Education Dive Dive Brief: Two senior U.S. Education Department officials told journalists Monday at an event in Las Vegas that the federal agency under Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to make more and better data available to students considering college, while continuing to prioritize the kind of deregulation that has characterized the current […]

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ITT Trustee Sues Ed Department, Lenders to Help Pay $1.5B in Claims

ITT Trustee Sues Ed Department, Lenders to Help Pay $1.5B in Claims

Education Dive Dive Brief A trustee responsible for resolving the bankruptcy of ITT Educational Services is suing the federal government and the financial institutions that backed a loan program connected to the for-profit college, according to The Wall Street Journal. She is seeking funds to pay for about $1.5 billion in […]

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New York AG Sues Debt-Relief Companies

New York AG Sues Debt-Relief Companies

Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum Telemarketers from several student loan relief companies falsely represented themselves as employees of the federal government and told borrowers they could not enroll in debt-relief programs like income-based repayment on their own, the New York attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme […]

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Average Loan Debt for Graduates of Four-Year Colleges: $28,650

Average Loan Debt for Graduates of Four-Year Colleges: $28,650

Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fein The average student loan debt last year for graduates of four-year colleges who took out loans was $28,650, according to the latest version of an annual report from the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). The average amount was up $300, or 1 percent, from 2016. […]

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