Higher Ed Dive Ben Unglesbee July 19, 2024 Analysts with the ratings agency described a “tough year” in the higher ed world as revenue pressures ran into rising costs. Dive Brief: Fiscal 2023 was a “tough year” for private nonprofit colleges amid a “long trend of weakening demand,” S&P Global Ratings […]
Higher Ed Dive Ben Unglesbee July 15, 2024 Fitch Ratings found a 1.1% year-over-year increase in net tuition revenue for fiscal 2023, but this isn’t enough to preserve margins at private nonprofits. Dive Brief: Fitch Ratings found net tuition grew in fiscal 2023 among the colleges it rates but warned that the […]
Inside Higher Ed Steven Mintz July 18, 2024 Strategies for combating postcollege underemployment. Colleges and universities need to launch careers, not just produce graduates. Currently, however, many institutions aren’t doing enough to promote real-world, postgraduation career readiness. Especially at the campuses that serve the largest number of Pell Grant–eligible students, […]
Best Colleges Matthew Affojas July 18, 2024 If passed, the law would require for-profit institutions to generate at least 15% of their revenue from non-federal sources. A new bill proposes making it harder for for-profit colleges to rely on federal dollars. It would change the existing 90/10 rule into the […]
Inside Higher Ed Lauren Coffey July 18, 2024 New requirements for reporting cyberattacks would put undue stress on both small and large institutions, 16 organizations told the Department of Homeland Security in a letter. More than a dozen higher education–focused organizations are hitting back against a federal proposal that would […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott July 18, 2024 Higher ed wasn’t a top priority for Donald Trump when he first took office. But now that he and the GOP see attacking elite institutions and regulating colleges as winning political issues, a second term is likely to bring more aggressive policies. […]
The Washington Post Alex Swoyer July 18, 2024 For-profit and nonprofit schools increasingly find themselves in courtrooms opposing federal regulations that they say the Biden administration is imposing on them due to ideological differences. Career Education Colleges and Universities, an advocacy group for for-profit schools, has backed litigation challenging the Biden administration’s borrower defense provisions […]
Thompson Coburn LLP Jim Matchefts July 15, 2024 On the presidential campaign trail in 2020, Joe Biden promised that, if elected, he would implement a program to forgive federal student loan debt for millions of Americans. As the COVID-19 pandemic was winding down, President Biden made good on that promise. […]
Higher Ed Dive Natalie Schwartz July 15, 2024 The new regulations, which include protections for LGBTQI+ students, have been put on pause in at least 15 states. Dive Brief: A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule from taking effect in Texas, making it […]
The Heritage Foundation Jonathan Butcher and Lindsey M. Burke, PhD July 15, 2024 The U.S. Department of Education is on a losing streak. College student loan “forgiveness?” Stuck in legal limbo. Update to the federal student loan online platform? System crashed. Radical changes to Title IX of the Civil Rights […]