Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf March 29, 2023 Dive Brief: California officials have accused Olivet University — an evangelical institution under federal investigation for suspected money laundering, visa fraud and other crimes — of violating several state education regulations, portending its potential closure. Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a complaint earlier this […]
Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik March 27, 2023 Study finds that nearly one in four high school seniors said they passed up, out of political concerns, a college they would have initially considered because of its state. The trend is evident among conservatives and liberals. When the U.S. Supreme Court […]
USA TODAY Jon Marcus and Fazil Khan March 27, 2023 Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that […]
Insider Ayelet Sheffey March 27, 2023 Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the Education Department with recommendations to better protect student-loan borrowers. She urged stronger oversight on for-profit institutions that engage in predatory behavior. She also recommended oversight for OPM providers, and quick implementation of the gainful employment rule. […]
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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 […]