Newsletter from CSAC on the Grant Delivery Modernization Project – Summer 8/2017
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Education Dept.’s Progress Is Stalled in Complying With Consumer Rule
The Chronicle of Higher Education – The Ticker Education Dept.’s Progress Is Stalled in Complying With Consumer Rule The Education Department has not made any progress toward generating data this year to comply with the Obama-era gainful-employment rule and does not have “any timetable” for doing so, according to a letter last […]
Gainful Employment Electronic Announcement #107 – Information for GE Reporting by the October 1, 2017 Deadline
Career Education Review August 4, 2017 Jenny 0 Gainful Employment Electronic Announcement #107 – Information for GE Reporting by the October 1, 2017 Deadline This Electronic Announcement reminds institutions of the upcoming requirement that they must submit Gainful Employment (GE) program data to NSLDS for the 2016-2017 award year by October […]
30 Million Workers without a Bachelor’s Degree Have Good Jobs
Good Jobs Data 30 Million Workers without a Bachelor’s Degree Have Good Jobs Although the decline in the manufacturing economy eliminated many good jobs for high school graduates, there are still 30 million good jobs in the U.S. that pay well without a BA. These good jobs have median earnings of […]
Press Release | Majority News | Newsroom | United States Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
The United States Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Isakson, Tester Applaud Committee Approval of Comprehensive G.I. Bill Reforms Bipartisan legislation seeks to improve veterans’ education benefits, enhance post-9/11 G.I. Bill Wednesday, July 26, 2017 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., chairman and ranking member of the […]
Student loan companies to feds: Tell states to stop regulating us
Student loan companies to feds: Tell states to stop regulating us Published: July 29, 2017 8:10 a.m. ET The request comes as a number of states consider proposals to license student loan servicers By JILLIANBERMAN REPORTER Over the past few years, lawmakers in Maine, California, Illinois and elsewhere have worked to pass […]
Survey of Non-College Credentials
Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain July 27, 2017 A new report seeks to describe the landscape of non-degree postsecondary training, with a focus on five categories: certificate programs, work-based training (such as apprenticeships), skills-based short programs (coding boot camps), massive open online courses and other online microcredentials, and competency-based education programs. The report’s authors […]
Trump Administration Has Approved No Borrower Defense Claims
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum July 27, 2017 The U.S. Department of Education has not approved any borrower defense applications since the beginning of the Trump administration, a department official told Democratic senators this month. Borrower defense to repayment, until recently an obscure provision of the Higher Education Act, allows […]
Ashford University Notches Win in GI Bill Dispute
Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain July 27, 2017 In the latest development in an eventful saga, Ashford University on Wednesday announced that it is closer to preserving access to Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits. The online university enrolls roughly 5,000 student veterans. But last year Iowa’s state approval agency attempted to strip the […]
There are 2.4 million fewer college students than there were five years ago
The Hechinger Report The problem is worst in the Midwest and the Northeast by ISAAC CAREY and JON MARCUS The number of college and university students has dropped for five straight years, to about 18 million in the semester just ended, and no upswing is expected until 2023. What growth does lie ahead […]