Education Dive. Dive Brief: Zovio’s long-sought conversion of its for-profit Ashford University to an independent nonprofit college, AU NFP, now has the approval of its accreditor, WASC Senior College and University Commission. The change, which was announced Monday and is expected to close during the third quarter, comes five months after […]
Inside Higher Ed. The student debt crisis has become ubiquitous in headlines and even in the mouths of some lawmakers. New research, though, suggests that if many students are taking out unnecessary loan debt, others aren’t borrowing enough to support their pursuit of a degree. The studies found that community […]
Inside Higher Ed. So far the Trump administration’s take on trying to hold colleges more accountable has relied largely on releasing more public-facing data about their performance at the program level, while also deregulating and dropping sanction-bearing rules from the Obama era. The U.S. Department of Education’s top higher education […]
Inside Higher Ed. Plans to create a new fully online community college in California are well under way. Last month the project got a name, Calbright College, and the first cohort of learners is due to begin in October this year with courses in IT, cybersecurity and medical coding. The […]
Inside Higher Ed. With college students facing issues such as phishing or identity theft, some university and college security departments are incorporating different strategies in order to raise awareness of cybersecurity issues. The number of individuals reporting identity theft in recent years has increased, and according to Consumer Reports, college […]
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, […]