Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum The Obama administration for years battled with the for-profit sector over a rule that would hold higher ed programs accountable for graduating students with debt they couldn’t repay. That rule, known as gainful employment, applied to all career education and certificate programs, and the first […]
Career Education Review The U.S. has 6.7 million job openings. Why aren’t they being filled? By Jenny June A record amount of job openings indicates that structural unemployment is causing a skills mismatch. Are employers ready to reskill workers to adapt to technological change? A notable thing happened in the […]
Inside Higher Ed As California Goes? The biggest and perhaps least likely state to try performance funding will tie billions of dollars for community colleges to measures of student success, a plan faculty groups say will punish students and colleges. By Paul Fain With powerful faculty organizations and a commitment to unfettered […]
Inside Higher Ed California Higher Ed Leaders Oppose PROSPER Act By Andrew Kreighbaum The leaders of the three California public higher education systems on Monday issued a statement opposing the PROSPER Act, House Republicans’ proposal to overhaul the Higher Education Act. “Our public institutions of higher education are committed to providing affordable, […]
Thompson Coburn Arbitration Provisions in Enrollment Agreements Appear to be Safe in Light of Supreme Court Ruling A recent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court was lauded by employers for upholding the enforcement of arbitration agreements in employment contracts. An analysis of the ruling shows that it likely extends the […]
Accredited Council for Independent Colleges and Schools Media Statements: FOIA and May 30 Filing ACICS Submits Response to Department of Education Regarding Continued Federal Recognition, Ends Effort to Halt FOIA Release of Draft Staff Report On May 30, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) submitted a response […]
NPR ED By Ashley Gross and Jon Marcus Garret Morgan (center) is training as an ironworker near Seattle and already has a job that pays him $50,000 a year. Sy Bean/The Hechinger Report Like most other American high school students, Garret Morgan had it drummed into him constantly: Go to […]
NPR ED By Elissa Nadworny There’s been a lot of attention lately on low-income students on campus — mostly on how to recruit them and how to make them feel welcome. For good reason: Pell Grant recipients make up about a third of the undergraduate student population in the U.S., […]
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Education Dive More than 100 for-profit institutions closed during past year, according to federal data Author: Autumn A. Arnett@A2Arnett June 6, 2018 The number of for-profit and career colleges in the higher education landscape declined dramatically in the last four years, with the rate of decrease increasing from year to year, […]