Committee on Education & Labor WASHINGTON | April 4, 2019 Committee Democrats used a “bipartisan” higher education hearing to vilify a sector of postsecondary education that serves approximately 10% of America’s students looking for specific career skills. No one disagrees that bad actors in education, at any level, proclaiming any […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials opened champagne and shook hands with negotiators Wednesday after a lengthy rule-making process led to consensus on a broad array of changes to federal standards governing college accreditors and online education. Those changes will allow colleges to get faster approval […]
Click to view the .PDF of the letter from Steve Gunderson, President & CEO of CECU https://cecu.informz.net/cecu/data/images/Letter%20to%20chairwoman%20Davis.pdf
Cooley As outlined in our previous posts on proposed regulations in California, we are also tracking newly proposed laws introduced in Washington State, Oregon and New York, all part of a growing trend in which state (or in one case, municipal) agencies are moving to fill perceived gaps in enforcement […]
InsideHigherEd By Andrew Kreighbaum The Dream Center, a Los Angeles nonprofit that had agreed to purchase Argosy University and the Art Institutes chain just 24 months earlier, closed its doors in March amid finger-pointing and recriminations between a court-appointed receiver, congressional Democrats and the Education Department. The Trump administration had […]
Cooley By Kate Lee Carey Following a court ruling in September 2018 making the delayed Obama-era Borrower Defense to Repayment regulations immediately effective, the Department of Education has been promising guidance to institutions so they (and potentially affected past and present students) could understand ED’s expectations for compliance. After six […]
THEHILL.com BY DANIEL ELKINS — 04/01/19 Congressional hearings on the Hill continue to vilify for-profit universitiesand jeopardize how veteran students, like myself, can leverage our GI bill benefits, which is why I feel compelled to speak out. It is time for our leaders to stand up for student veterans everywhere and […]
Education Dive By Hallie Busta Dive Brief: Legislation put forward in the California State Assembly by five Democratic lawmakers seeks to level the playing field for college admissions in the state just weeks after an alleged nationwide bribery scheme rocked the world of higher education. Among the proposals are requiring at least […]
Cooley March 21, 2019 As discussed in two prior posts (Part I and Part II) in our series about proposed bills in the California Assembly, a group of six Assembly members have coordinated in authoring a legislative package of seven bills impacting higher education in a state that represents one-fifth of the […]
Education Dive by Hallie Busta Marni Baker Stein, chief academic officer at Western Governors University, discusses a “tension” she sees between traditional and new models of postsecondary education. News earlier this year that Western Governors University would not have to pay back $713 million in Title IV funds was seen […]