Ed Surge By Sydney Johnson This month the U.S. Education Department announced a proposal to remove a set of higher education regulations meant to punish college programs that turned out to be bad deals for students—specifically, ones whose graduates’ student-loan payments were higher than a specific portion their incomes. The policy, […]
Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum Just over 13 years ago, Robert L. King moved on from the State University of New York system after a rocky tenure in his first stint as a higher ed leader. The chancellor of the SUNY system from 2000 to 2005, he had lost […]
Campus Technology By Dian Schaffhauser Students in Generation Z would rather learn from YouTube videos than from nearly any other form of instruction. YouTube was designated as the preferred mode of learning by 59 percent of Gen Zers in a survey on the topic, compared to in-person group activities with […]
Forbes by Richard Vedder I have claimed for years that three words beginning with “I” hold the key to major positive changes in higher education: information, incentives and innovation. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is proposing taking a major step to improve information provided to students and their families, a positive […]
Chronicle of Higher Education By Goldie Blumenstyk On its first go-round operating what it called “the largest nonprofit career-college system in America,” ECMC Group didn’t win many fans. That’s putting it mildly. Now, with a new chief executive who spent his first year on the job studying the career-training landscape, […]
Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum A study finds that most borrowers exit loan default within a few years. But many still fail to make serious progress paying down their balances, and the options facing them are inconsistent and confusing. Defaulting on student debt is typically considered the worst potential […]
Inside Higher Ed By Elizabeth Redden New final guidance published Thursday by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will change the way international students and visiting scholars on F, J or M visas are found to accrue “unlawful presence” in the U.S., a determination that could subject them to future bars on […]
Ed.gov The U.S. Department of Education today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes to rescind Gainful Employment (GE) regulations in order to provide useful, transparent higher education data to students and treat all institutions of higher education fairly. “Students deserve useful and relevant data when making important […]
Chronicle of Higher Education By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz The U.S. Department of Education has officially proposed repealing the gainful-employment rule, a policy that punished higher-education programs whose graduates accumulated excessive student-loan debt, according to a notice of proposed rulemaking released Friday. The rule, first proposed by the Obama administration in 2011, would have […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum More than 2,000 career education programs serving over half a million students risked losing access to Title IV federal student aid under the Obama administration’s gainful-employment rule. Those programs look to be in the clear after Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Friday she plans to rescind the […]