College 101 America is home to more than 6000 colleges serving about 19M students. College accreditors are tasked with overseeing the academic quality of these colleges and with serving as gatekeepers of federal financial aid for them. We wanted to understand how often accreditors take action to discipline colleges for […]
Higher Ed Dive Rick Seltzer May 19, 2022 New reports describe how education-work pipelines fail many young adults, especially those of low socioeconomic status. What can prompt changes? Young adults are facing lengthier and more complicated pathways to quality jobs as postsecondary education has grown more valuable in the labor […]
Federal Student Aid PUBLICATION DATE: May 18, 2022 DCL ID: GEN-22-06 SUBJECT: Changes to 2022-2023 Verification Requirements SUMMARY: This letter provides information about the extension of a waiver of certain verification requirements for the 2022-2023 award year as a result of the ongoing economic, social, and physical impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik May 18, 2022 For the high school Class of 2022, they all showed declines in the percentage wanting to go to college, compared to the last class before the pandemic. The percentage of male, Latino and Black high school seniors who want to go to […]
Desert Sun Ema Sasic May 16, 2022 The Coachella Valley, like the rest of the nation, has been impacted by a health care worker shortage prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new educational program could offer a new way to bring in and retain qualified staff. Rancho Mirage-based hospital Eisenhower Health and […]
COMMITTEE on Education & Labor May 17, 2022 Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke on the House Floor in opposition to H.R. 7309, the reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which gives Big Labor and Washington bureaucrats more power over our nation’s workforce development system. […]
CNBC Jessica Dickler May 16, 2022 KEY POINTS Between the strong labor market and the rising cost of college, teenagers are choosing shorter, more affordable, career-connected pathways, according to a report. The likelihood of attending a four-year school sank from 71% to 51% in the past two years, ECMC Group […]
North Bay Business Journal Jeff Quackenbush May 9, 2022 Empire College, the 62-year-old private Sonoma County institution that moved to shed its business school two years ago amid declining enrollment, is closing in on a planned merger with another private law school on the Central Coast. Empire College is firming […]
Inside Higher Ed Pooja Vora May 12, 2022 This post is the second in a series of blog posts on the articulation of credit transfer and digs deeper into the functionalities and applications of Transfer Explorer. Nationwide, 80 percent of community college students express a desire to obtain a bachelor’s degree, but a mere […]
State of California Department of Justice May 10, 2022 OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined 24 attorneys general in supporting the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) efforts to address misleading claims made by certain industries, including for-profit schools about earning potential. State attorneys general have long been at the forefront […]