Education Dive Dive Brief: Troubled for-profit DeVry University, which enrolls around 46,000 students, is being acquired by a California venture capitalist in a deal some say isn’t getting the depth of examination it deserves from the Education Department, according to The Associated Press. The prospective new owner is Bradley Palmer through his […]
Career.org Steve Gunderson, President and CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities, criticized the U.S. Department of Education for their failure to complete final rules on Borrower Defense and Gainful Employment by the November 1, 2018 deadline. “At a time when the nation desperately seeks skilled workers, career education […]
Time.com College financial aid season kicks off today, October 1, as the 2019-2020 Free Application for Federal Financial Aid opens for filing. Anyone who wants to access the billions of dollars of federal financial aid awarded each year—including grants, loans, and work study—has to complete the FAFSA. The information you […]
Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum In its latest update to the College Scorecard, the Education Department has dropped data putting key outcomes measures for individual colleges in context. The department is making those changes as it pushes transparency offered by the Scorecard as an alternative to accountability provisions in the gainful-employment […]
ACICS.org Senior Department Official Recommends Continued Agency Recognition for ACICS ACICS Compliant with 19 of 21 Criteria with 12 Months to Demonstrate Compliance with Two Criteria On September 28, the Senior Department Official (SDO) at the U.S. Department of Education released a detailed decision determining that the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges […]
Career Education Review Sacramento Ultrasound Institute has announced the launch of, SonicDICOM PACS, its new Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) after partnering with JIUN Corporation, a software company headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan. The new PACS features a web-based DICOM Viewer and DICOM Server that is accessible online through SUI’s Student […]
Education Dive Dive Brief: California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that will extend through July 2026 an initiative allowing the state’s 15 community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees that meet the needs of employers in their region, a San Diego television station reported. The law requires that the two-year colleges […]
Education Dive Dive Brief: Two senior U.S. Education Department officials told journalists Monday at an event in Las Vegas that the federal agency under Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to make more and better data available to students considering college, while continuing to prioritize the kind of deregulation that has characterized the current […]
Education Dive Dive Brief A trustee responsible for resolving the bankruptcy of ITT Educational Services is suing the federal government and the financial institutions that backed a loan program connected to the for-profit college, according to The Wall Street Journal. She is seeking funds to pay for about $1.5 billion in […]
Inside Higher Ed by Andrew Kreighbaum Telemarketers from several student loan relief companies falsely represented themselves as employees of the federal government and told borrowers they could not enroll in debt-relief programs like income-based repayment on their own, the New York attorney general alleged in a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme […]