POLITICO By LAURAINE GENOTA With help from Nicole Gaudiano and Michael Stratford 04/16/2020 EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IG CLEARS DEVOS AIDE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST CHARGES: The agency’s inspector general concluded last year that Robert Eitel, who worked as a for-profit college executive before becoming a senior aide to DeVos, “did not appear to […]
Hogan Marren Babbo & Rose, Ltd. | HMBR April 16, 2020 Co-authored by Michael Wherry of McClintock & Associates and Audrey Kaplan of HMBR Since the U.S. Department of Education’s April 9, 2020, announcement of the forthcoming release of the student emergency funds as noted in Section 18004(c) of the […]
Inside Higher Ed Kery Murakami April 17, 2020 The last recession brought overaggressive recruitment of students by bad actors among for-profit colleges, and some worry about a repeat in this economic downturn. Eight years ago, as senior staffers on the U.S. Senate’s education committee, Beth Stein and Carrie Wofford finished […]
Inside Sources Steve Gunderson April 17, 2020 Sixty-five years ago, Joseph Welch, serving as legal counsel for the U.S. Army in the televised Joseph R. McCarthy hearings, asked a question that may have changed history when he asked of the Wisconsin Republican senator, “Have you no sense of decency?” That […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education Flower Darby April 14, 2020 Failing forward is a concept that is particularly resonant now, a month into academe’s shift to remote instruction. That’s because, for many faculty members new to online teaching, much of what they resolutely tried in the early days of the […]
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 […]