Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum Senator Patty Murray said Thursday that an overhaul of the Higher Education Act should tackle college affordability directly by addressing state investment in public colleges and boosting federal spending on need-based aid programs like Pell Grants. Murray, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate’s education […]
SFChronicle.com by Alexi Koseff SACRAMENTO — California would add financial protections for students at for-profit colleges under measures that Democratic legislators introduced Wednesday in response to the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era regulations. The seven bills would place restrictions on college programs if graduates cannot find good-paying jobs, limit aggressive […]
Inside Higher Ed by Paul Fain A national survey of 1,000 likely voters in the 2020 general election found that 93 percent of respondents supported increasing investment in skills and technical training. ALG, a polling firm, conducted the survey for the National Skills Coalition, a nonprofit group that backs increased federal spending on […]
EducationDive By Ben Unglesbee Financially troubled Argosy University suffered a potentially fatal regulatory blow Wednesday, after months of owner Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) trying to sell off the college system. The U.S. Department of Education blocked Argosy from access to further Title IV aid by denying its application for […]
CalMatters by Felicia Mello he turmoil in the for-profit college industry has affected California as much as any state, with the closures of major chains leaving thousands of students deeply in debt, their educations on hold. Meanwhile, the state agency in charge of regulating private colleges and vocational schools has struggled […]
Education Dive by Ben Unglesbee Update: February 26, 2019: The receiver for Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) is suing the nonprofit Education Principle Foundation (EPF) as well as Studio Enterprise Manager over a deal that transferred control of eight Art Institutes and most South University colleges to EPF. The receiver, Mark […]
Inside Higher Ed by Paul Fain A wide range of employers have complained for years that higher education is failing to adequately prepare students to join the work force. However, a growing number of businesses are owning some of the blame for the disconnect between college and jobs. Employers too […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education By Andy Thomason After Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, observers predicted that Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, would face fresh scrutiny. DeVos, a billionaire philanthropist, has hired officials with ties to for-profit education, and critics have long alleged that those ties […]
Inside Higher Ed by Lee Gardner Paul J. LeBlanc remembers the day, about a decade ago, when a public research university in New England announced that it was starting an online M.B.A. Southern New Hampshire University, where LeBlanc is president, had just rolled out its own ambitious online program and started its […]
Inside Higher Ed by Steven Mintz If I were forced to predict what higher education will look like ten years from now, I’d say this: Small liberal arts colleges will be limited to a handful of highly endowed institutions. It’s not just under-endowed, rural colleges with fewer than a thousand […]