Federal Trade Commission Jay Mayfield February 17, 2022 Agency launches rulemaking to challenge false earnings claims by multilevel marketers, for-profit colleges, and “gig economy” platforms The Federal Trade Commission launched a proceeding to challenge bogus money-making claims used to lure consumers, workers, and prospective entrepreneurs into risky business ventures that […]
Inside Sources Fred Freedman February 16, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an unimaginable toll on our lives, livelihood, and mental well-being. As we enter the third year of this global crisis, the emergence of new variants like Omicron and the threat of future ones have left everyone somewhere between exhausted and […]
The Economic Standard Krisztina Pusok This week, the Department of Education’s negotiated rulemaking committee will meet to discuss sweeping changes to the 90/10 rule governing the share of revenue that career colleges can receive from the federal government. According to reports, the committee is likely to recommend broadening the scope […]
Committee on Education & Labor February 17, 2022 President Biden’s predatory policies targeting career-focused institutions harm low-income, minority, and other disadvantaged students seeking to improve their career pathways and move up the economic ladder. Holding proprietary institutions to a different standard and ignoring the failures of traditional colleges and universities […]
Inside Higher Ed Jamienne S. Studley February 17, 2022 Accreditation is stepping up its game in an evolving higher education landscape in ways that may surprise you, writes Jamienne Studley. It’s no surprise that accreditation is misunderstood. The accreditation system exists precisely to allow for tailored, predictive judgments applying broad […]
Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik February 17, 2022 Nearly 16,000 borrowers will receive $415 million in borrower defense to repayment discharges following the approval of four new findings. This includes approximately 1,800 former DeVry University students, who will receive approximately $71.7 million in full borrower-defense discharges after the U.S. Department of Education determined that […]
Boston Hearld Chris Woodward February 16, 2022 You don’t have to agree with their politics to get the message protesting truckers sent across the border from Canada: The economy depends on truck drivers. And America just doesn’t have enough of them. According to the American Trucking Association, the nation is […]
KFOX14 Erika Castillo February 14, 2022 EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — The sound of success for many people has changed when it comes to seeking education after high school or later in life. A growing need for technical workers across the country has triggered a wave of higher enrollment in trade schools. […]
CECU February 14, 2022 Arlington, VA – A report released earlier today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute, reveals that if the Obama administration’s gainful employment debt-to-earnings test were applied to all programs at all higher education institutions, then 51% of failing programs would […]
Texas Public Policy Foundation Research Andrew Gillen, Ph.D. February 2022 Executive Summary Higher education needs more accountability, and a promising approach was a set of federal regulations called gainful employment, which sought to identify and terminate federal financial aid for college programs that left students with excessive student loan debt […]