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Education Dive Natalie Schwartz April 15, 2020 Healthcare students are eager to combat the coronavirus, but they’ve been sidelined by campus closures and shelter-in-place orders. In February, Jennie Castillo was completing her required clinical hours at the University of California Davis Medical Center to become a respiratory therapist when she […]

Duane Morris | UpdateED Kristina Gill April 9, 2020 On April 1, the U.S. Department of Education (“USDE”) published a long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Distance Education and Innovation in the Federal Register. The proposed regulations are the final part of the consensus negotiated rulemaking that occurred in 2019. This regulation comes […]

Inside Higher Ed Kery Murakami April 13, 2020 The Education Department agreed to process 170,000 claims by student loan borrowers who want their debts canceled because they were misled by their colleges under a settlement jointly proposed by the department and a consumer group. If approved by a federal court in California, […]

Career Education Review Jenny Faubert Pima Medical Institute Produces COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness Training Videos Collaboration with Futuro Health and Other Community Partners Provides Added Tools for Frontline Healthcare Professionals San Marcos, Calif. (April 13, 2020) – Pima Medical Institute has produced a COVID-19/Pandemic Readiness training video series for hospitals and […]

Breaking News: Emergency Education Relief Funds Made Available to Postsecondary Institutions Career Education Colleges and Universities | CECU April 9, 2020 12:22 pm PST Moments ago, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced the U.S. Department of Education (“Department”) is making immediately available to postsecondary institutions more than $6.2 billion in emergency […]

State of California Department of Consumer Affairs | DCA April 9, 2020 DCA – Guidance on Waiver of Restrictions on Nursing Student Clinical Hours Under DCA Waiver DCA-20-03 1 / 3 This guidance pertains to Governor Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order N-39-20 issued on March 30, 2020, which gives the director […]

Education Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf April 7, 2020 Dive Brief: Almost three quarters of college and university presidents believe staff layoffs will be necessary as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report from research firm ABC Insights. The survey, which is based on responses from 142 top […]

abc7 NEWS SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) —  April 8, 2020 San Francisco’s Academy of Art University is helping local health care workers stay safe by using 3D printers to make face shields. The school’s industrial design shop manager came up with the idea. Max Niehaus looked at several designs online and […]

U.S. News & World Report Cuneyt Dil, Associated Press April 4, 2020 It took California nearly a month after declaring a state of emergency to change rules allowing thousands of nursing students to graduate so they can help fight the coronavirus. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Fearing an out-of-control coronavirus outbreak […]