Ed Surge Mordecai I. Brownlee March 23, 2023 This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social […]
EDSCOOP Lindsay McKenzie March 20, 2023 Educause is continuing to press the U.S. Department of Education to revise its oversight of edtech providers. Educause is continuing to work with its institutional members and other higher education organizations to get the U.S. Department of Education to reconsider its recent guidance on […]
USA TODAY Chris Quintana March 22, 2023 The University of Phoenix has continued to receive more GI Bill funding than any other institution of higher learning, despite its history of government scrutiny for misleading military veterans. The Veterans Affairs Department sent the for-profit school $1.6 billion in GI Bill funds from 2013 […]
Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman March 22,2023 The educational services giant, which has been supplanted in the space by 2U, Coursera and others, sells its online services unit to a private equity firm in an unsettled landscape. Once upon a time, Pearson Education helped Arizona State University become one of the biggest […]
Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman March 21, 2023 Possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university raises existential questions about the for-profit sector and federal regulation of higher education. A panel of experts weighs them. As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 […]
WCET Frontiers Lindsey Downs March 21, 2023 Providing uniform consumer protection for distance education students located in all member states is a hallmark of the interstate reciprocity agreement known as the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA). States that chose to join the agreement, often through state legislation signed by their […]
Daily Caller James Lynch March 17, 2023 The Functional Government Initiative (FGI), a watchdog legal organization, is filing a lawsuit against the Department of Education (ED) for failing to release records regarding student loan forgiveness and the student debt payment moratorium. FGI filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in […]
Committee on Education & The Workforce March 17, 2023 Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) decision to defend the ability of Congress to conduct oversight on the Biden administration’s costly student loan bailout: “Once again, the Biden Administration […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott March 20, 2023 House and Senate Republicans are planning to introduce a resolution to overturn President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan after the Government Accountability Office determined that the plan meets the definition of a rule under the Congressional Review Act. That means that a simple majority of lawmakers […]
Real Clear Education Ethan Pollock & Erica Cuevas March 17, 2023 The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in two cases that could scuttle the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan. If the plan survives, it could be a potentially life-changing financial reprieve for more than 40 million eligible Americans. But no matter what the […]