Inside Higher Ed Unusual foundation grant will pay for community colleges and four-year institutions to improve their transfer pathways, with goal of 30 percent bump in four-year degrees earned by community college graduates. By Paul Fain May 9, 2017 An unusually structured new grant from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation […]
Washington Times States should be enabled to accredit colleges without risking federal financing By Ed Feulner – – Monday, May 8, 2017 ANALYSIS/OPINION: Does anyone out there think higher education doesn’t cost enough? Or that there are plenty of ideological points of view for students to choose from? I didn’t […]
Inside Higher Ed With interagency panel launched under Obama no longer active, observers see a Department of Education less interested in leading oversight of for-profit college sector. State regulators may become more important. By Andrew Kreighbaum May 9, 2017 In the midst of a push late in the Obama administration to […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education By Goldie Blumenstyk MAY 08, 2017 WASHINGTON Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and her department faced public criticism following news reports that the department had flat-out rejected dozens of colleges’ Upward Bound grant applications based on minor line-spacing and font-size errors. Now, Ms. DeVos has […]
Purdue’s deal for Kaplan packs low up-front costs, long terms and boundary-pushing details Inside Higher Ed By Rick Seltzer May 4, 2017 Purdue University managed to make a big splash without fronting cash in its deal to acquire Kaplan University and its major online education presence. That’s a key point in […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education By Goldie Blumenstyk MAY 02, 2017 While overall enrollment in higher education has fallen in the past three years, the number of students taking classes at a distance has continued to grow, a new report shows. In 2015, more than six million students — nearly […]
Inside Higher Ed By Paul Fain May 2, 2017 The Trump administration has backed its predecessor’s decision to terminate the recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, a national accreditor that oversees 245 colleges, most of them for-profits. The Education Department finalized its decision to nix the […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education April 27, 2017 by Andy Thomason Updated (4/27/2017, 11:53 a.m.) with news of the finalization of the purchase and more details on the deal. Purdue University’s Board of Trustees voted on Thursday morning to buy the for-profit Kaplan University, which is a division of the […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum April 27, 2017 Fannie Mae, the largest backer of mortgage credit in the country, has issued new guidelines allowing home owners to refinance their mortgages to pay off their student loan debt. The option to essentially swap student loan debt for mortgage debt is […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education By Peter Schmidt April 28, 2017 Linda DeAngelo, an assistant professor of higher education at the U. of Pittsburgh, is an author of a study examining students at for-profit colleges. Contrary to common stereotypes, those students generally saw their experiences as positive. What leads more […]