Deseret News. Work boots. Hooded sweatshirt underneath a Carhartt jacket. Tool belt. Truck. That’s the perception for many of a career after trade school. Nathan Meyer thought so, too. Although he’d taken classes in high school for CPR and EMT training at Davis Technical College, the local “trade school,” he […]
Inside Higher Ed. Democratic presidential candidates are spending another election cycle debating the merits of free college. But in Washington, a fight is brewing over whether federal student aid should be available to people who pursue short-term training to land better jobs. Students currently can use Pell Grants, the primary […]
RobertKelchen.com. One of the many issues currently derailing bipartisan agreement on federal Higher Education Act reauthorization is how to treat for-profit colleges. Democrats and their ideologically-aligned interest groups, such as Elizabeth Warren and the American Federation of Teachers, have called on Congress to cut off all federal funds to for-profit […]
Inside Higher Ed. It’s not every day that colleges and universities and their adjuncts wholeheartedly agree on something. But legislation in California regarding the exempt status of adjunct workers has the backing of both the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities and the Service Employees International Union. If successful, […]
Inside Higher Ed. A package of seven interrelated bills proposing tighter regulation of for-profit and private colleges in California moved closer to becoming law this week — but not fully intact. One of the bills, a proposal to create the nation’s first state-level gainful-employment rule, was watered down to require […]
Education Dive. Regulatory pressure, sliding enrollment and demand for education online continue to characterize the market in which for-profit colleges operate. And their latest financial quarter offers more insight into how they are doing so. For instance, with banks wary of loaning to for-profit colleges, National American University Holdings (NAUH) […]
Education Dive. The University of Utah wanted to raise graduation rates but was coming up short. The usual tactics — such as better analytics and academic advising — weren’t cutting it. That’s because the problem wasn’t students’ academic abilities. It was money. Talking with students, university officials found many took longer […]
Thompson Coburn LLP. On July 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education published in the Federal Register a new Gainful Employment (GE) rule (the “2019 GE Rule”). If your institution is (1) a proprietary school, or (2) a public or private nonprofit institution that offers non-degree programs that are Title IV […]
Inside Higher Ed. The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday released proposed rules for a new apprenticeship structure, as well as funding for apprenticeship programs. The Trump administration has been working on an industry-recognized system of apprenticeships, which would exist in parallel with the existing federally recognized apprenticeship program. The […]
MarketWatch. For decades, Max Soucia has been trying to stay current on his student loans. Since he graduated with his master’s degree in divinity in 1993, Soucia, 72, has been in touch on and off with the various student-loan companies hired by the government to manage his debt. Despite taking […]