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 […]
CareerEducationNews Current Santa Ana Campus to Move to Anaheim Location ANAHEIM, Calif.—As part of its continued commitment to providing quality education programs throughout Southern California, North-West College (NWC) recently remodeled a beautiful facility located at 511 North Brookhurst Street in the city of Anaheim, which will house the College’s Santa […]
InsideHigherEd By Ashley Smith A new Quinnipiac University poll finds 52 percent of voters oppose making all public colleges in the U.S. free. Only 45 percent support free public college. Fifty-four percent of voters oppose and 41 percent of voters support free public college even if it is … (continue reading)
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum National American University will close campuses and focus on online programs in response to declining enrollments. But the for-profit chain’s finances have drawn scrutiny from regulators. As Democratic lawmakers raked many for-profit colleges over the coals during the past decade, National American University, a chain based […]
Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee Dive Brief: A federal judge in Ohio ordered an end to Dream Center Education Holdings’s (DCEH) receivership, the legal process that began in Januarythat gave it protection from creditors as it tried to sell off and reorganize its remaining assets. The order allows for the current semester to […]
CalMatters By Felicia Mello Seth Frotman was traveling from the East Coast to California recently when he had a realization: The amount of new student loan debt that borrowers in the Golden State had racked up over the past year was equal to all the student loan debt in the state […]
Education Dive By Natalie Schwartz@nmschwartz23 Dive Brief: Diane Auer Jones, principal deputy under secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, outlined how forthcoming regulations on accreditation would address college closings during an event Tuesday hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C. New regulations will include “financial triggers” that require […]
InsideHigherED.com By Catharine B. Hill and Will Sealy April 23, 2019 The U.S. Department of Education’s inspector general has released a scathing report detailing the department’s failure to hold student loan companies accountable and the resulting harm to borrowers from a series of malpractices. The independent watchdog’s report finds that loan servicers often failed […]