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NASFAA Borrower Defense Neg Reg Day 3: Reconsideration of Claims, Partial Relief, Financial Responsibility, and Arbitration Agreements By Allie Bidwell, Communications Staff The negotiating committee tasked with attempting to rewrite a federal borrower defense to repayment rule made progress on Wednesday, tackling several more issues outlined for discussion, including the […]

Sac Bee California plans online community college for working adults to sharpen skills BY ALEXEI KOSEFF akoseff@sacbee.com January 10, 2018 01:34 PM Updated January 11, 2018 02:31 PM California will launch a new community college completely online next year, under a $100 million initiative included in Gov. Jerry Brown’s latest […]

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 […]

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 […]