The Chronicle of Higher Education April 11, 2017 by Adam Harris Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday withdrew three memos, issued during President Barack Obama’s administration, that had been focused on streamlining the student-loan-servicing industry and improving customer service for borrowers. Ms. DeVos described the move in a letter to James W. […]
PYMNTS.com By PYMNTS Posted on April 10, 2017 As an alternative to Federal Plus and private student loans, more students are looking to income share agreements as a way to fund higher education. In an income share agreement, an investor essentially fronts a student’s college tuition under the condition that […]
Forbes Quora , Contributor Apr 10, 2017 @ 01:51 PM What do you think of Silicon Valley’s critical attitude towards college these days? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Jay Wacker, works in […]
Inside Higher Ed Employers have a retention issue of their own: holding on to their workers. Employer-paid tuition programs to help workers go to college are part of the solution, writes Rachel Carlson. By Rachel Carlson April 11, 2017 Those of us who work in higher education know our retention […]
Inside Higher Ed Year-Round Pell’s Likely Return Congressional Republicans and the Trump White House appear poised to bring back year-round Pell Grant eligibility, which the Obama administration and Congress nixed in 2012 over cost concerns. By Paul Fain April 6, 2017 Getty Images Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Senator Lamar […]
CBS Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Steven Kunz-Bost was working on a computer service technician program at the Moreno Valley location of Westech College when he arrived at an empty campus. Confused at to what was going on, he drove 25 miles to the Fontana headquarters where he read on the door: “We regretfully […]
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Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain March 30, 2017 A new report from the American Enterprise Institute argues that state and local funding of public colleges stacks the deck against for-profit institutions under the gainful-employment rule, an Obama administration regulation that measures the ability of graduates of vocational programs to […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum March 30, 2017 The Trump administration defended the gainful-employment rule in federal court Wednesday, suggesting that it may not quickly roll back the regulation designed to crack down on programs graduating students unable to pay down high student loan debt loads. The American Association […]
LA Times The future of higher education is often the subject of debate; what constitutes a valuable education for students continues to shift as student demographics change. Recently, government regulators and other external stakeholders have been questioning the value of for-profit higher education, specifically, citing for-profit colleges and universities that […]