InsideHigherEd In her first significant act as Education Secretary more than two years ago, Betsy DeVos said she planned to overhaul an Obama administration student loan rule designed to protect borrowers defrauded by their college. Despite her efforts, the Obama borrower-defense regulations took effect last year. But on Friday DeVos capped off a two-year […]
Education Dive Another quarter means another opportunity to check in with some of the sector’s publicly traded for-profit college operators and online program managers (OPMs). In the last few years, these companies have reacted to the mix of heightened regulation, shifting demand and new competitors affecting for-profit and online education. […]
NASFAA By Joelle Fredman, NASFAA Staff Reporter Two House Democrats introduced a bill late last week to reinstate the Obama-era gainful employment (GE) regulations that the Department of Education (ED) eliminated last month. While the rule — or lack thereof — does not take effect until July 2020, some institutions […]
InsideHigherEducation Veterans’ organizations see negotiations over the Higher Education Act as an opportunity to tighten a federal exemption they say makes service members target of aggressive marketing by for-profit colleges. Veterans’ groups played a key role last year in blocking a Republican proposal to update the landmark higher education law. […]
Wired.com This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. Early this summer, tech entrepreneur Austen Allred was on Reddit, as he often is, when he noticed something suspicious. The coding forums he frequents, where people usually talk about JavaScript bugs and command line […]
EdSurge.com When consumers search the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, the results that come back are ranked by the average salary students make after attending. That’s just one example of the growing use and prominence of early-career earnings data in evaluating colleges. But new research argues that the metric can […]
Duane Morris August 19, 2019 Employers should review their dress and grooming policies for any requirements that may have a disparate impact on employees who belong to protected classes. Following New York City, California and New York have become the first two states to protect employees from discrimination based on natural […]
EducationDive Dive Brief: The state of California has formed a postsecondary education advisory council to coordinate its higher education systems. The Council for Post-Secondary Education includes representatives from the state’s two public four-year university systems and its community college system as well as stakeholders such as the California Labor Federation and the state’s Chamber […]
theHill.com A drive to protect veterans and members of the Reserve and National Guard, originating with misplaced bias against for-profit schools, will gut options for these patriots when they try to use their GI Bill to get a useful education. That’s the impression one could reach upon examining the federal […]
EducationDive.com Dive Brief: A “hypercompetitive” market for higher education along with a continued focus on affordability will constrain tuition revenue in the coming year even as state funding stabilizes, Moody’s analysts wrote in a report released this week. Low-to-negative net tuition revenue growth is likely for many regional public and […]