Inside Higher Ed Liam Knox April 22, 2024 With less than two weeks until the typical May 1 commitment deadline, only 34 percent of colleges have started sending financial aid offers to accepted students, according to new survey data from the National Association for Student Financial Aid Advisers (NASFAA); 54 percent had not […]
Fox Business Breck Dumas April 18, 2024 President Biden’s student loan bailout could cost taxpayers as much as three-quarters of a trillion dollars, new estimate finds President Biden’s latest plan to cancel student loan debt for millions of borrowers will cost taxpayers far more than its official price tag, and […]
The Conversation Robert Samuels April 18, 2024 A recent federal study on graduation rates for American colleges and universities shows that 40% of all students did not earn a degree or credential within eight years of leaving high school. The graduation rate is even lower for low-income students. Among students from families […]
GCU News April 18, 2024 In light of the disturbing and defamatory public comments made by U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last week during a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Grand Canyon University is providing the following statement. This response is prefaced with the comment that our disagreements with […]
Higher Ed Dive Naaz Modan April 19, 2024 The Education Department’s long-awaited regulations also provide protections for pregnant students and employees. The U.S. Department of Education on Friday issued its long-awaited Title IX rule, which for the first time enshrines protections for LGBTQI+ students and employees, as well as pregnant students and employees, under […]
The Mercury News Ethan Baron April 17, 2024 CEO said he lived in car in Palo Alto while seeking tech job High-profile Bay Area coding school BloomTech, which touts “dream” technology jobs at companies such as Google and Amazon, has been sanctioned by federal authorities for allegedly deceiving students about loan costs […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott April 11, 2024 While one House committee probed the FAFSA mess Wednesday, another grilled Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about the disastrous rollout of the student-aid form. “Disaster.” “Mess.” “Crisis.” Those were a few terms used by Republicans and Democrats to describe the launch of the […]
Working Nation Ramona Schindelheim April 3, 2024 U.S. manufacturing could need as many as 3.8 million new employees by 2033, according to Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute A new report from Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute (MI) says that the U.S. manufacturing industry will continue to grow post-pandemic, thanks to […]
X – Twitter Christopher C. Cuomo April 10, 2024 Here’s where we start tonight … let’s drop the stigma around trade jobs. I’m giving you the numbers and @mikeroweworks is telling you how we got here in America. We have so much debt from student loans and yet so many trade […]
McGuire Woods April 10, 2024 On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its opinion in CCST v. U.S. Dept. of Education, reversing the order of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, and granting a preliminary injunction against the 2022 Borrower Defense to Repayment […]