Inside Higher Ed The move by a growing number of community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees has generated excitement, especially in California, where the first crop of students in a pilot program are expected to graduate this spring. But a recent report from the state Legislature’s independent policy analysis office urges caution. […]
Markets Insider New Study: Distance Education Up, Overall Enrollments Down PRESS RELEASE PR Newswire Jan. 11, 2018, 12:42 PM WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 11, 2018/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new report, Grade Increase: Tracking Distance Education in the United States, by the Babson Survey Research Group, reveals distance student enrollments have increased for the fourteenth straight year […]
Evolllution TODAY’S LEARNER Published on 2018/01/08 It’s All About the Students Becky Takeda-Tinker | President, Colorado State University—Global Campus A new demographic of students with different expectations, needs and goals from the traditional model higher education institutions have historically served requires colleges and universities to rethink their model and their […]
NASFAA Borrower Defense Neg Reg Day 2: Committee Discusses Partial Relief, Institutional Liability, Statute of Limitations By Allie Bidwell, Communications Staff Committee members on Tuesday dove into substantial issues in developing a new borrower defense to repayment regulation, including the idea of partial relief, institutional liability, statutes of limitations for […]
Career Education Review COMMENTARY/EDITORIAL December 5, 2017 Jenny 0 2017 Proprietary Higher Education Review: “It Will Never be ‘The Way We Were’” By Tony Guida, Partner, Education Group of Duane Morris LLP Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? If we had […]
NASFAA Negotiators Clash Over Borrower Defense Standard of Evidence in Second Neg Reg Session By Allie Bidwell, Communications Staff Higher education stakeholders gathered Monday to begin debating the merits and drawbacks of a draft regulation put forth by the Department of Education (ED) that would outline under which circumstances a […]
Inside Higher Ed Strada Acquires Adult Learning Group By Paul Fain January 9, 2018 Strada Education Network has acquired the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), a nonprofit organization that has long focused on prior learning assessment and other ways for adult students to earn college credit for their knowledge […]
Inside Higher Ed For-Profit Group Wants Extension for ACICS Colleges By Paul Fain January 4, 2018 Career Education Colleges and Universities, a trade group for the for-profit college sector, this week called on the U.S. Congress to give colleges that are accredited by an agency the Obama administration terminated more time to find […]
The Legislative Analyst’s Office has just published the following report: An Evaluation of CSU’s Cross-Campus Online Education Program California State University (CSU) offers online instruction at virtually all of its 23 campuses. Chapter 363 of 2013 (AB 386, Levine) requires CSU to increase students’ access to online coursework and transparency […]
Inside Higher Ed Proposal Would Raise the Bar for Borrowers Seeking Loan Relief Department of Education proposal would require student borrowers demonstrate an intent on the part of their college to mislead or deceive in order to get loan relief through borrower-defense claims. By Andrew Kreighbaum January 3, 2018 The Department […]