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Report: Dropping Financial Scores Would Help For-Profits

Report: Dropping Financial Scores Would Help For-Profits

Inside Higher Ed Kery Murakami June 9, 2020 A proposal expected to be ruled upon by the Education Department soon, to waive measures of institutions’ financial health for three years, would mainly help troubled for-profit colleges, according to a report released Tuesday by the progressive Center for American Progress. In […]

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18 Democratic attorneys general sue DeVos over campus sexual violence rules

18 Democratic attorneys general sue DeVos over campus sexual violence rules

Education Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf June 5, 2020 Dive Brief: Eighteen Democratic attorneys general have sued U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over her new regulations governing how colleges should investigate and respond to sexual violence on campus. They argue the rules undermine the intent of Title IX, the federal law barring campus […]

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Reopening campuses is vital, college presidents tell lawmakers

Reopening campuses is vital, college presidents tell lawmakers

Education Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf June 4, 2020 Dive Brief: In testimony before the Senate’s health and education committee Thursday, three college presidents outlined their plans to reopen campuses for the fall term, detailing the potentially costly precautions they would take to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The trio of […]

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Small Colleges Partner With Hospitals for Testing and Tracing

Small Colleges Partner With Hospitals for Testing and Tracing

Inside Higher Ed Emma Whitford June 4, 2020 Many college reopening plans hinge on colleges’ ability to effectively implement COVID-19 spread-prevention guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local authorities. Without widespread testing, bringing in students from different locations to live together in close proximity could be […]

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Attorney General Submits Final CCPA Regulations for Approval

Attorney General Submits Final CCPA Regulations for Approval

Duane Morris LLP June 3, 2020 Duane Morris Blogs On June 1, 2020 the California Attorney General (AG) submitted the final text of the CCPA regulations to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for approval.  The final regulations appear to be unchanged from the latest draft published on March 11, 2020. […]

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Commuter Colleges Are Different

Commuter Colleges Are Different

Inside Higher Ed Matt Reed June 1, 2020 A glaring gap at a Senate hearing. A faithful reader sent me a heads-up about the June 4 Senate committee hearing on “Going Back to College Safely.” Witnesses scheduled to testify include Mitch Daniels, from Purdue; Christina Paxson, from Brown; Logan Hampton, from Lane […]

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Plan to monitor colleges’ financial health renews oversight debate

Plan to monitor colleges’ financial health renews oversight debate

Education Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf May 27, 2020 Among the most long-standing complaints in higher education is the method by which the U.S. Department of Education tracks the financial health of private nonprofit and for-profit schools. The financial responsibility composite score, a measure built into the Higher Education Act, examines colleges’ liquidity, equity […]

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