AP News Collin Binkley April 19, 2020 Some of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges are ramping up advertising, hiring recruiters and offering discounts for online classes as they predict the coronavirus pandemic will push unemployed workers back to school, helping revive the industry. New marketing campaigns target Americans who have been ordered […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education Eric Kelderman April 18, 2020 The long-term economic impact of the pandemic is uncertain. But colleges are taking steps now to offset deep revenue losses. Weeks after colleges across the country shut down campuses in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus, there is […]
Duane Morris LLP. SBA’s Interim Final Rule Clarifies Paycheck Protection Program Loan Eligibility Requirements April 17, 2020 Many of the concepts addressed in the interim final rule are applicable to all loan applicants and the use of PPP loans in general. On April 14, 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) released an […]
Career Education Colleges and Universities (CECU) April 21, 2020 CECU Readout of the U.S. Department of Education’s Briefing on COVID-19 and CARES Act CECU Senior Vice President of Policy and Research Nicholas Kent was invited to this afternoon’s briefing with several senior U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) officials, including Secretary […]
POLITICO By LAURAINE GENOTA With help from Nicole Gaudiano and Michael Stratford 04/16/2020 EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IG CLEARS DEVOS AIDE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST CHARGES: The agency’s inspector general concluded last year that Robert Eitel, who worked as a for-profit college executive before becoming a senior aide to DeVos, “did not appear to […]
Hogan Marren Babbo & Rose, Ltd. | HMBR April 16, 2020 Co-authored by Michael Wherry of McClintock & Associates and Audrey Kaplan of HMBR Since the U.S. Department of Education’s April 9, 2020, announcement of the forthcoming release of the student emergency funds as noted in Section 18004(c) of the […]
Inside Higher Ed Kery Murakami April 17, 2020 The last recession brought overaggressive recruitment of students by bad actors among for-profit colleges, and some worry about a repeat in this economic downturn. Eight years ago, as senior staffers on the U.S. Senate’s education committee, Beth Stein and Carrie Wofford finished […]
Inside Sources Steve Gunderson April 17, 2020 Sixty-five years ago, Joseph Welch, serving as legal counsel for the U.S. Army in the televised Joseph R. McCarthy hearings, asked a question that may have changed history when he asked of the Wisconsin Republican senator, “Have you no sense of decency?” That […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education Flower Darby April 14, 2020 Failing forward is a concept that is particularly resonant now, a month into academe’s shift to remote instruction. That’s because, for many faculty members new to online teaching, much of what they resolutely tried in the early days of the […]
Education Dive Natalie Schwartz April 15, 2020 Healthcare students are eager to combat the coronavirus, but they’ve been sidelined by campus closures and shelter-in-place orders. In February, Jennie Castillo was completing her required clinical hours at the University of California Davis Medical Center to become a respiratory therapist when she […]