Hechinger Report The last decade has seen widespread ‘degree inflation.’ But a growing movement of employers, workers and training groups offers a rebuke to a culture that exalts a bachelor’s as the gold standard for upward mobility by LAWRENCE LANAHAN BOSTON — Ryan Tillman-French sat at his seventh-floor desk early on […]
EducationDive By Ben Unglesbee Investors funneled billions of dollars into the sector during and after the recession, and they may be gearing up for another round. In 2006, a group of private equity firms that included Goldman Sachs acquired the for-profit college operator Education Management Corp. (EDMC) in a $3.4 billion leveraged buyout. […]
LAO The Legislative Analyst’s Office has just published the following report: Evaluation of Cal Grant C ProgramThe Cal Grant C program provides financial aid to students in career technical education (CTE) programs. Legislation enacted in 2011 and 2014 changed the rules for prioritizing among program applicants. The new rules give […]
WECT As one of my favorite columnists, Dave Barry, used to say, “I am not making this up!” Maybe what I am about to share isn’t as exciting to you as last week’s release of “Avengers: Endgame” or Sunday’s “Game of Thrones” episode, but I kid you not, we are […]
BusinessInsider Lowe’s wants to make plumbers, electricians, and mechanics cool. The home improvement retailer is spearheading an organization called Generation T – “T” as in trade skills – that’s looking to solved the skilled trades labor gap. Businesses and organizations like 3M, Timberland, Samsung, Bosch, the National Association of Home […]
VISALIA, Calif., April 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — San Joaquin Valley College (SJVC) is proud to announce a partnership with Generation T (“Gen T”), a national movement launched by Lowe’s Home Improvement to address the widening skilled trades gap. Gen T seeks to drive enrollment in skilled trade training and build a pipeline of […]
InsideHigherEd By Andrew Kreighbaum As Democratic lawmakers raked many for-profit colleges over the coals during the past decade, National American University, a chain based in South Dakota, managed to keep its reputation mostly intact. But the publicly traded company has been beleaguered in recent years by the same troubles affecting much of the […]
InsideHigherEd By Lindsay McKensie Publishers Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education Wednesday announced plans to merge and operate under the name McGraw Hill. As two big players in an industry with few players at the top, the merger is significant. In addition to changing the dynamic between the biggest publishers, the merger […]
DiverseEducation.com By LaMont Jones WASHINGTON – Employers are increasingly demanding employees who are competently trained to meet workplace needs, and a new Gallup study indicates that graduates of online-based Western Governors University are more satisfied than others in a range of school-work-life areas. The study, unveiled at an event Tuesday […]
TheHill.com BY TODD J. ZYWICKI AND NEAL MCCLUSKEY It’s not looking good for higher education. Student-loan debt is approaching $1.6 trillion, $400 billion more than car loans and $600 billion more than credit card debt. A 2017 NBC News-Wall Street Journal Poll found that 47 percent of Americans think that a college degree […]