Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum January 23, 2017 The Senate education committee has pushed back a vote on the nomination of Betsy DeVos for education secretary to give senators time to review a letter of agreement from the Office of Government Ethics. The vote by the Health, Education, Labor […]
The Washington Post Then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan and President Obama in 2015. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) By Emma Brown January 19 One of the Obama administration’s signature efforts in education, which pumped billions of federal dollars into overhauling the nation’s worst schools, failed to produce meaningful results, according to a federal […]
Inside Higher Ed Education Department action helps those who attended Corinthian, as well as ITT Technical Institute and American Career Institute. By Andrew Kreighbaum January 16, 2017 Ted Mitchell The U.S. Department of Education on Friday announced thousands of new loan discharges for students who attended several closed for-profit colleges. […]
Inside Higher Ed College Scorecard Screwup Final Friday release by the Obama administration’s Education Department corrects a substantial error in loan repayment rates on consumer web tool. By Paul Fain January 16, 2017 The U.S. Department of Education has fixed a mistake in the data for its College Scorecard that […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education January 13, 2017 by Andy Thomason With one week left before its leadership changes hands, the U.S. Department of Education announced on Friday that it would automatically grant loan-debt relief to former students at the American Career Institute, a defunct for-profit college in Massachusetts. The […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum January 12, 2017 The Department of Education has released data showing there were 539 institutions placed on heightened cash monitoring as of Dec. 1, meaning they are subject to greater financial oversight than other institutions participating in federal aid programs. The total number of affected […]
Inside Higher Ed Is the Worst Over at CCSF? City College of San Francisco is struggling with money woes, dwindling enrollment and a long-running accreditation crisis, but many in the state say the college is changing for the better. By Ashley A. Smith January 12, 2017 […]
Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain January 11, 2017 Students at for-profit institutions achieve learning results that are similar to those of students who attend comparable nonprofit colleges, according to a new study by the Council for Aid to Education. The study was funded by the for-profits that participated in […]
Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain January 10, 2017 The U.S. Department of Education last month finalized its decision to terminate the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a controversial national accrediting agency that oversaw Corinthian Colleges, ITT and other failed for-profits. Before the end of December, all remaining […]
Overburdened With Debt Inside Higher Ed Hundreds of career-training programs risk losing access to federal student aid funds without improved standing under rule designed to hold institutions accountable for graduates’ ability to pay off debt. By Andrew Kreighbaum January 10, 2017 Nearly a tenth of vocational programs assessed by the […]