EducationDive The latter part of 2018 made for a horrendous close to the year for a handful of operators in the for-profit college sector. Education Corporation of America shut down its 70-plus campuses essentially overnight after losing its accreditation in early December. Vatterott, a smaller but not insignificant player, also shuttered that month. […]
EdSource By Larry Gordon California’s community colleges are making some gains toward ambitious goals of getting more students to complete degrees and transfer to universities but the small improvements last year were “disappointing” and show that much work remains ahead, the system’s leader said Monday. “While there is some progress, it […]
Education Dive In a hotel conference room in the nation’s capital, the higher ed world’s gatekeepers were gathering over coffee, tea and bottled water to talk about their work just as the Education Department was getting underway with an attempt to overhaul it on a breadth and scale rarely seen. […]
Education Dive Dive Brief: JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that it is giving $350 million over five years to community colleges and career training programs. It extends the investment firm’s five-year, $250 million initiative launched in 2013, with funds allocated to develop and pilot educational training programs, reinforce existing education and training systems […]
AtascaderoNews.com By Camas Frank ATASCADERO — The Atascadero branch of the privately owned career training school San Joaquin Valley College (SJVC) is officially open at 8845 El Camino Real, after a ribbon cutting and reception March 7. SJVC Atascadero offers accelerated, nine-month medical and business certificate programs, as well as job placement […]
EducationDive Dive Brief: More than 80 federal legislators criticized the U.S. Education Department’s handling of the Dream Center’s attempt to purchase and operate a trio of colleges, writing in a letter last week obtained by Education Dive that the resulting closures “signal a pattern of severe mismanagement and dereliction of […]
InsideHigherEd By Andrew Kreighbaum The Department of Education on Friday released new guidance on the 2016 borrower-defense rule instructing colleges to drop enforcement of mandatory arbitration agreements. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos blocked the rule from taking effect in 2017, but after a legal battle with consumer advocates and several states, she was ordered by a […]
Cooley By Kate Lee Carey and Caitlyn Shelby As noted in our blog post last week, a group of six California Assembly members have coordinated in authoring a legislative package of seven bills impacting higher education in (and out of) that state. This is part two in our discussion of these legislative proposals, […]
InsideHigherEd by Ashley A. Smith California lawmakers are going after for-profit institutions with a slate of bills meant to tighten regulations, some of which also are aimed at nonprofit universities with big online programs. Lawmakers in the state say the bills are a response to the rollback of for-profit oversight […]
Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee Dive Brief: For-profit college operator Bridgepoint Education agreed on Tuesday to acquire the coding boot camp specialist Fullstack Academy. The deal includes $17.5 million in cash and 4.75 million shares of common stock in Bridgepoint, according to a securities filing. The companies expect the deal to […]