EducationDive By Hallie Busta Dive Brief: Grand Canyon Education (GCE) executives shared more details on their plans to add new university partners during a call with analysts Tuesday to discuss their second-quarter earnings. GCE CEO Brian Mueller said the education services provider is looking for three or four college partners that want to grow to about […]
EdSurge.com By Robert Ubell (Columnist) If you’re wondering why online learning is booming, take a look at the latest U.S. Department of Labor data showing heightened demand for skilled workers. Those with an undergraduate or advanced degree now represent about 40 percent of the nation’s workforce, while those with just a high school […]
EdSource alifornia’s new online community college officially starts in eight weeks but it has yet to have a formal application for students or identify employers that will host its three new industry-certified programs. But Calbright College’s new president, Heather Hiles, said the institution is on track to meet those goals […]
SCPR.org A-Technical College in Huntington Park will shut down for good on Aug. 15. The college’s one-year programs train people to become medical assistants, administrative assistants, and like Lucas, massage therapists. It’s an independent, small school, where students say they get more hands-on instruction. While some large for-profit chains have closed […]
Duane Morris August 5, 2019 Institutions should consult with counsel to understand the risks associated with continuing to disburse aid to California students based on the revised complaint process that the Department expects California to implement. Late on Friday, August 2, 2019, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter […]
InsideHigherEd By Andrew Kreighbaum Career Education Corporation reached a $30 million settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission last month, it disclosed in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The FTC launched an inquiry into the company’s practices in 2015 focused on deceptive marketing and advertising to prospective students. Career Education admitted no wrongdoing […]
Politico.com By Michael Stratford RHODE ISLAND GOVERNOR PUSHES TUITION-FREE COLLEGE IN STATES: Raimondo, a Democrat who passed free community college in her state, is taking on a new national role to promote efforts by governors and state lawmakers to make public colleges tuition-free. — Raimondo will become co-chair of a new […]
InsideHigherEd By Doug Lederman California’s new process for giving online students enrolled at public and private nonprofit colleges outside the state a way to submit complaints about their institutions still falls short of new federal rules governing state authorization. But the U.S. Education Department now considers the state to be in […]
Cooley.com The California Legislature began its summer recess on July 12 with a package of bills with broad implications for all institutions operating under BPPE authority still awaiting further Senate action. All seven of the original bills passed the Assembly with little resistance, but several of the proposals have undergone […]
Forbes.com By Richard Vedder I recently had an extraordinarily interesting conversation with Darrell Silver, the cofounder and CEO of Thinkful, a coding academy that currently has about 1,600 students. It is doing lots of innovative things, explaining why much of traditional higher education is struggling. It and other coding academies provide […]