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 […]
Duane Morris The 2016 State Authorization Rule requires that states have a process for resolving complaints against out-of-state schools in the state in which the student resides and the home state where the institution’s main campus is located. We reported earlier this week on the U.S. Department of Education’s July 22, 2019, announcement, which […]
BY ADOLFO GUZMAN-LOPEZ IN NEWS ON AUGUST 6, 2019 6:00 AM There’s a for-profit college in Huntington Park that’s going to shut down soon. Was it defrauding students? Did it lose its accreditation? Was it some other scandal that makes for big splashy headlines? None of the above. It’s for reasons that happen all the time but […]
Mondaq Last Updated: July 24 2019 Article by Elizabeth B. Meers and Michelle Tellock In late May the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) announced several changes to its College Scorecard, a tool that is intended to help students and their families make informed decisions about postsecondary enrollment. Then, in July – in a final rule in […]
JDSupra The United States Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) recently issued a Compliance Supplement for 2019 that includes, for the first time, audit objectives for colleges and universities concerning compliance with the Safeguards Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”). The 2019 Compliance Supplement, which is effective for audits of […]