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 […]
Insider Madison Hoff May 9, 2022 Hospital staff watch Intensive Care Unit Nurse Merlin Pambuan, 66, walk out of the hospital where she spent eight months with COVID-19, at Dignity Health – St. Mary Medical Center, in Long Beach, California, on December 21, 2020. Jobs in healthcare, medical research, and […]
Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik May 10, 2022 City College of San Francisco eliminated the jobs of 38 full-time faculty members on Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The original plan was to eliminate 50 such jobs. The college says the layoffs reflect enrollment declines, but faculty leaders say the layoffs will […]
Ed Source Michael Burke May 5, 2022 New bill would create additional rules forcing community to allow students to take higher level courses. Arguing that too many community college students are getting stuck in remedial classes, California lawmakers are pushing a new bill that would create stricter rules dictating when colleges […]
Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman May 6, 2022 Eagerly awaited U.S. review of companies that manage colleges’ online academic programs urges more Education Department scrutiny but doesn’t appear to significantly threaten revenue-sharing deals. A long-awaited federal review of companies that many colleges contract with to help design and manage their […]
Ed Surge Nadia Tamez-Robledo May 5, 2022 College Scorecard and its mountainous trove of data are ripe for providing insights about the value of a degree—if you can wade through it. We decided to dig into the data to see how colleges and programs stack up when it comes to […]