Duane Morris August 19, 2019 Employers should review their dress and grooming policies for any requirements that may have a disparate impact on employees who belong to protected classes. Following New York City, California and New York have become the first two states to protect employees from discrimination based on natural […]
EducationDive Dive Brief: The state of California has formed a postsecondary education advisory council to coordinate its higher education systems. The Council for Post-Secondary Education includes representatives from the state’s two public four-year university systems and its community college system as well as stakeholders such as the California Labor Federation and the state’s Chamber […]
theHill.com A drive to protect veterans and members of the Reserve and National Guard, originating with misplaced bias against for-profit schools, will gut options for these patriots when they try to use their GI Bill to get a useful education. That’s the impression one could reach upon examining the federal […]
EducationDive.com Dive Brief: A “hypercompetitive” market for higher education along with a continued focus on affordability will constrain tuition revenue in the coming year even as state funding stabilizes, Moody’s analysts wrote in a report released this week. Low-to-negative net tuition revenue growth is likely for many regional public and […]
InsideHigherEd.com Lawmakers pushing for a dramatic change to the federal Pell Grant program have for months sought to placate liberal critics by arguing that new money wouldn’t go to for-profit colleges. Legislation dubbed the JOBS Act would expand eligibility for Pell money to programs as short as eight weeks that […]
InsideHigherEd.com With free-flowing coffee and sleek modern furnishings in an open-concept space, Strayer University’s new location in Killeen, Tex., looks more like a high-end co-working space than a typical university outpost. That’s because in many ways it is. The space is the 20th “hybrid campus” Strayer has opened in the […]
InsideHigherEd.com ITT Education Services Inc., which owned and operated the defunct for-profit ITT Tech college chain, reached a $60 million legal settlement Monday with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In the lawsuit, CFPB alleged that ITT improperly steered students to take out private loans through the college that they did not understand and […]
LAIST.com There’s a for-profit college in Huntington Park that’s going to shut down soon. Was it defrauding students? Did it lose its accreditation? Was it some other scandal that makes for big splashy headlines? None of the above. It’s for reasons that happen all the time but don’t often draw media attention. […]
EducationDive.com Dive Brief: Grand Canyon Education (GCE) executives shared more details on their plans to add new university partners during a call with analysts Tuesday to discuss their second-quarter earnings. GCE CEO Brian Mueller said the education services provider is looking for three or four college partners that want to grow to about 5,000 to 7,000 […]
DuaneMorris.com August 5, 2019 Institutions should consult with counsel to understand the risks associated with continuing to disburse aid to California students based on the revised complaint process that the Department expects California to implement. Late on Friday, August 2, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to […]