Breitbart Joel B. Pollak August 27, 2024 CLAIM: Kamala Harris “took on one of our country’s largest for-profit colleges that scammed students.” VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Harris rejected a deal to save the college, and thousands of students had their education interrupted. Vice President Kamala Harris has a rather thin record […]
Campus Reform Michael Duke August 26, 2024 The number of higher education institutions dropped 1.7 percent during the 2023-24 academic school year as economic constraints make it harder for higher ed to operate. The number of higher education institutions dropped 1.7 percent during the 2023-24 academic school year as economic […]
Inside Higher Ed Johanna Alonso August 27, 2024 Pregnancy was always implicitly protected by Title IX. But Biden’s new rules formalize the rights of pregnant and parenting students, making higher ed more accessible. Lacy Guzman decided to go back to college when she was pregnant with her first child. She and […]
Inside Higher Ed Lauren Coffey August 27, 2024 Proposed federal regulations have institutions and higher ed groups worried about time and financial burdens. Hundreds of professors, colleges and higher ed organizations have expressed sharp criticism of the Department of Education’s proposed regulations for online courses, saying they stem from an […]
CECU August 23, 2024 Dear Secretary Cardona: On behalf of Career Education Colleges and Universities (“CECU”), we submit the following comments in response to the above-referenced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “NPRM” or the “Proposed Rule”) published in the July 24, 2024 Federal Register (89 Fed. Reg. 60256) by the […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott August 26, 2024 The Education Department has issued $61.7 million in fines and cut off aid to 35 colleges for violations since 2021. Some critics say it hasn’t gone far enough in holding rule breakers accountable; others say the feds have a “vendetta” against career colleges. […]
AEI Michael Brickman August 14, 2024 The Biden-Harris team has signaled that it’s gearing up for an “October Surprise” on student loan cancellation — although it might come even sooner, sneaking in before early voting starts. Once again, they are trying to shift hundreds of billions of dollars in loans onto the […]
Military.com Rachel S. Cohen August 19, 2024 The Army said Friday it will reimburse soldiers who may need to foot the bill for college courses this fall as glitches in the service’s tuition-assistance portal have kept hundreds of troops from accessing those funds. Army IgnitED, which connects soldiers with federal funds to […]
NAWBlog Matthew D. Chase August 12, 2024 Dear Chairman Sanders and Ranking Member Cassidy: On behalf of the National Association of Counties (NACo), the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB), the National League of Cities (NLC), the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), and the U.S. Workforce Associations (USWA) we write […]
On Ed Tech Phil Hill August 15, 2024 How ED’s outdated consumer-protection view of online education could lead to bureaucratic burden on every online course in US higher ed In yesterday’s post on the CHLOE9 report, we mistakenly referred to the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) as co-authors when we meant […]