Education Dive by Ben Unglesbee Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) and its remaining assets, including several Art Institutes, face a “dire” cash shortage and lack funds to pay for operations and federal aid stipends to students, according to Mark Dottore, the court-appointed receiver managing DCEH assets. Dottore told Education Department official Diane Auer Jones […]
Education Dive by James Paterson As short courses designed to build specific skills become more popular, colleges and universities are integrating them into their curriculum, either through partnerships with companies like Fullstack or by building their own. More than 20,300 students were set to graduate from boot camps in 2018, according to […]
AEI.org Over the past couple years, career and technical education has garnered a lot of attention. Politico reported that 49 states and Washington, DC, enacted 241 career and technical education–related laws, executive actions, and budget provisions in 2017.1 The National Governors Association has tagged career and technical education as one […]
SmartCitiesDive by Katie Pyzyk This executive order comes at a time when America’s tech competitiveness is called into question, especially in comparison to China’s. The order does not expressly name China, but is widely understood to take aim at the country, which two years ago unveiled a plan to become a global […]
Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee Semel brings years of business development experience as Bridgepoint prepares to spin off its Ashford University, which last year the company merged with its University of the Rockies. Bridgepoint has submitted plans to its accreditor that would convert Ashford to a separate nonprofit entity while the company would transition […]
Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain Argosy University has failed to distribute more than $9 million in financial aid to its students, a court-appointed receiver told The Arizona Republic, and it’s unclear where the money is. The nonprofit Dream Center Education Holdings in 2017 acquired the Argosy chain from the for-profit Educational Management Corporation, […]
Inside Higher Ed by Ryan Craig Colleges may be facing pressure to separate their credentialed learning from their other offerings, Ryan Craig writes. Our work-force development system, meanwhile, could learn a thing or two from higher education. In the past, I’ve been critical of bundles. In my 2015 book, College Disrupted: […]
Education Dive by Ben Unglesbee After failing once to undo Obama-era rules aimed at for-profits, the Ed Department has signaled it will try again. But a confusing regulatory landscape remains. Easy as undoing regulations might seem to government outsiders, they typically must go through the same process as writing new […]
Inside Higher Ed Heather Hiles, an entrepreneur and Gates Foundation alum, will lead the new institution, launching this fall with competency-based certificate programs for the state’s adults. By Mark Lieberman California’s new online community college has made a key hire, pending approval today from the institution’s Board of Trustees. Heather Hiles, an entrepreneur […]
CNS News By Gerard Scimeca It’s no secret how many Democrats in Washington openly condemn private, for-profit and non-profit colleges and universities that offer students specific, career-focused degrees. Many Democrats in Congress work feverishly to shut these schools down, and they will only be happy with the education version of Obamacare, […]