Inside Higher Ed. Educators, policy makers and the business community are banking on community colleges to prepare the work force for jobs in rapidly growing fields and occupations. The ability of community colleges to perform such a role is increasingly vital, as the ongoing upheaval in labor markets due to […]
Deseret News. Work boots. Hooded sweatshirt underneath a Carhartt jacket. Tool belt. Truck. That’s the perception for many of a career after trade school. Nathan Meyer thought so, too. Although he’d taken classes in high school for CPR and EMT training at Davis Technical College, the local “trade school,” he […]
Inside Higher Ed. Democratic presidential candidates are spending another election cycle debating the merits of free college. But in Washington, a fight is brewing over whether federal student aid should be available to people who pursue short-term training to land better jobs. Students currently can use Pell Grants, the primary […]
RobertKelchen.com. One of the many issues currently derailing bipartisan agreement on federal Higher Education Act reauthorization is how to treat for-profit colleges. Democrats and their ideologically-aligned interest groups, such as Elizabeth Warren and the American Federation of Teachers, have called on Congress to cut off all federal funds to for-profit […]
Inside Higher Ed. It’s not every day that colleges and universities and their adjuncts wholeheartedly agree on something. But legislation in California regarding the exempt status of adjunct workers has the backing of both the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities and the Service Employees International Union. If successful, […]
Inside Higher Ed. A package of seven interrelated bills proposing tighter regulation of for-profit and private colleges in California moved closer to becoming law this week — but not fully intact. One of the bills, a proposal to create the nation’s first state-level gainful-employment rule, was watered down to require […]
Education Dive. Regulatory pressure, sliding enrollment and demand for education online continue to characterize the market in which for-profit colleges operate. And their latest financial quarter offers more insight into how they are doing so. For instance, with banks wary of loaning to for-profit colleges, National American University Holdings (NAUH) […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday issued the final repeal of regulations crafted by the Obama administration to hold low-quality career education programs accountable. The rule, known as gainful employment, was heavily criticized by the for-profit college sector and Republicans in Congress. In the first gainful-employment […]
IFAP.ED.GOV Posted Date: June 28, 2019 Author: Office of Postsecondary Education Subject: Gainful Employment Electronic Announcement #122 – Early Implementation of the Rescission of the Gainful Employment Rule On July 1, 2019, the Department of Education will publish a final rule rescinding the Department’s gainful employment (GE) regulations (2014 Rule) […]
Forbes Last Friday, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced she was killing off gainful employment rules governing for-profit colleges. These Obama Administration era regulations deny federal student financial aid to individuals attending institutions considered not having enough attendees “gainfully employed” after attending school. On the face of it, this […]