Inside Higher Ed. In the week after Donald Trump became the president-elect, stock prices of several major for-profit colleges rallied. Is that a signal of a return to their halcyon days? I’m guessing they’ll regain momentum, but in a different direction. They won’t just try to wind the clock back […]
Inside Higher Ed. Leading critics and supporters of the for-profit college industry gathered on a panel at the Cato Institute Wednesday to discuss the sector’s future of under President-elect Donald Trump. The six panelists agreed on one point: nobody really knows what to expect, given Trump’s unpredictability. It’s certainly a possibility that […]
Reuters. The U.S. Congress could as soon as January start to dismantle President Barack Obama’s transformation of student loan rules by blocking freshly minted regulations designed to help students who say they were defrauded by for-profit colleges. The new measures, which lay out loan relief procedures for the students, were […]
CECU. The following statement can be attributed to Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities: “The U.S. Department of Education has fulfilled what was our greatest concern around the gainful employment regulation – the use of faulty data that lacks context. “It is absolutely absurd to […]
Inside Higher Ed. After serving multiple terms as chairwoman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce subcommittee on higher education, Representative Virginia Foxx is poised to assume leadership of the full committee in the next Congress. And the longtime critic of the Obama administration’s higher education policies […]
Inside Higher Ed. Newt Gingrich and U.S. Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, are slated to join Career Education Colleges and Universities at an event Friday. The group, which is the primary trade organization for the for-profit sector, is announcing a new campaign to close the skills gap with five […]
Thompson Coburn LLP. Much has already been written about President-elect Donald Trump’s unanticipated victory and the GOP retention of Congress last week. But what should the nation’s institutions of higher education — and the students they serve — expect during the Trump era? Candidate Trump had little to say on higher […]
Diverse Issues in Higher Education. As speculation continued over how a Trump administration might treat for-profit colleges in the coming years, supporters and critics of the institutions sparred Wednesday over whether the institutions got a bum rap under the Obama administration. Eric Juhlin, CEO of the Center for Excellence in […]
Inside Higher Ed. To anticipate the higher ed priorities of a Trump administration, look to policies already proposed by Republicans in Congress. That’s the consensus of many observers of federal higher education policy when asked to gauge what kinds of policies President-elect Donald J. Trump is likely to pursue early […]
Reuters. For-profit education stocks have surged on expectations that President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican Congress may ease regulations imposed on the industry by the Obama administration, Barron’s said in a report. Stocks such as Grand Canyon Education, DeVry Education Group and Capella Education rose about 14 percent last week. […]