Committee on Education and the Workforce E&W Blog Contact: Press Office (202) 226-9440 Everyone’s Saying It: Higher Education is not serving the economy—Jobs Edition WASHINGTON | December 5, 2017 Last week, the Education and Workforce Committee introduced the PROSPER Act — the much-needed reform of the Higher Education Act. It’s a big bill […]
Career Education Review Kaplan Professional Education to Acquire College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group Transaction Will Enhance Kaplan’s Leadership Role in Financial Education and Professional Certification Kaplan Professional Education (Kaplan Professional), a unit of global education provider Kaplan, Inc., signed an agreement to acquire the College for Financial […]
Inside Higher Ed Southern California Wildfires Threaten Colleges By Paul Fain December 7, 2017 Ongoing wildfires in Southern California have prompted several colleges to close campuses or cancel classes. All three colleges in the Ventura County Community College District were closed Wednesday, the district said on its website, because of the “fire, evacuations, […]
Inside Higher Ed Handing Off DeVry Once a large for-profit institution, DeVry is now being handed over to a company that runs a small college with 600 students. Experts see the move as a sign of the times. By Ashley A. Smith December 6, 2017 DeVry University was once among the […]
Inside Higher Ed DeVry Under New Ownership By Ashley A. Smith December 5, 2017 Adtalem Global Education, the company that owns DeVry University, announced Monday that ownership of the for-profit institution would transfer to Cogswell Education LLC. The transfer deal also includes Keller Graduate School of Management. The agreement would still need federal […]
BuzzFeed News Why Betsy DeVos Just Might Be A Cosmetology School’s Savior Pro Way Hair School in Stone Mountain, Georgia, was in danger of shutting down due to Obama-era student loan rules. But along with the rest of the cosmetology school industry, Pro Way may have found a savior in […]
Forbes New Higher Education Reform Bill Will Help Low-Income Americans Go To College Ames Brown , CONTRIBUTOR Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Today, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, will introduce a landmark proposal to overhaul the way the federal government funds and […]
Inside Higher Ed GOP Seeks to Shift Accountability for Colleges While for-profits get the relief they’ve long clamored for, the GOP’s proposed overhaul of the Higher Education Act would add performance-funding standards for most colleges. By Andrew Kreighbaum December 4, 2017 Education groups scrambled Friday to dissect a massive bill from Republicans in […]
Chronicle of Higher Education What You Need to Know About the GOP Bill to Bring Sweeping Changes to Higher Ed By Adam Harris DECEMBER 01, 2017 Updated (12/1/2017, 2:49 p.m.) with additional details. After a flurry of movement this week on the reauthorization of the federal law governing higher education, which […]
Inside Higher Ed Calif. Attorney General Sues For-Profit Ashford By Ashley A. Smith November 30, 2017 California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against for-profit Ashford University and its parent company, Bridgepoint Education. Becerra alleges that Ashford made false promises and provided faulty information to students to persuade them to enroll. The lawsuit […]