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 […]
InsideHigherEd By Steve Gunderson Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos recently put as many as 80,000 students who live in California but attend an out-of-state public or nonprofit postsecondary school in peril. But it wasn’t her fault! A federal court earlier this year ordered the U.S. Department of Education to enforce an Obama-era law on state […]
Education Dive By Hallie Busta UPDATE: Aug. 5, 2019: The U.S. Department of Education signed off on California’s effort to comply with recently enforced rules on how the state handles complaints by students enrolled online in out-of-state nonprofit and public colleges. The move returns financial aid eligibility to around 80,000 […]
InsideHigherEd By Greta Anderson High schoolers who take career and technology education courses achieve the same college success as students who focus on more academic courses, and they are only slightly less likely to enroll in college in the first place, a study published Tuesday by Education Next found. Researchers Daniel […]
EdSource.org Tens of thousands of online California students are no longer at risk of losing federal financial aid after the state moved quickly to create a new system for addressing complaints from students against out-of-state colleges and universities. At least 60,000 Californians were affected by a new federal rule, which the […]
Career.org Career Education Colleges and Universities announced today that its member institutions have achieved a 59% graduation rate! In making the announcement, CECU’s president Steve Gunderson shared that over 500 campuses produced over 52,346 graduations in 2018. “Outcomes matter,” he said. “When Members of Congress referenced a GAO Report stating […]