Inside Higher Ed Laruen Coffey August 29, 2023 The University of Antelope Valley’s accreditor cited high leadership turnover and low graduation rates. he University of Antelope Valley in California has been placed on probation by its accreditor, just one year after being acquired by a Singaporean tech company. The private […]
Thompson Coburn June 23, 2023 Last Updated: July 19, 2023 On May 19, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education (the “Department”) published in the Federal Register the official version of its latest notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM”).1 While this proposed rule covers a number of important topic areas for Title […]
Duane Morris August 22, 2023 On August 16, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education sent the gainful employment and financial value transparency rule package to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget. The proposed rules broadly apply to all eligible programs and […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott August 21, 2023 At a time when mergers might help more institutions survive, new rules from the Education Department—aimed at protecting students and taxpayers—might result in more college closures instead. The latest academic year saw the start of what industry experts expect to be an […]
Atlanta Business Chronicle James Ritchie August 22, 2023 As artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT hit the mainstream earlier this year, challenges arose in the education field. One dominant concern about the technology, which can answer questions and generate text responses almost instantaneously, was that it could be used to […]
The Motley Fool Matthew Frankel August 22, 2023 KEY POINTS The Biden Administration is forgiving $39 billion in federal student loan debt for an estimated 804,000 borrowers. This is the result of an effort to fix past mistakes in the income-driven repayment-plan system. The $39 billion is mainly going to […]
Ed Source Thomas Peele August 17, 2023 The FBI arrested a number of Bay Area police officers in raids Thursday morning as part of a corruption investigation that began when the officers were allegedly found to be cheating on college tests to obtain degrees that guaranteed them pay raises, the East […]
The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Andrew Gillen August 18, 2023 Funding-eligibility tests can do real good if used universally, not selectively. The Biden administration will soon implement a set of regulations that are commonly known as “Gainful Employment.” These regulations would restrict some college programs’ eligibility to […]
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs August 16, 2023 RIN: 1840-AD57 View EO 12866 Meetings Request EO Meeting Received Date: 08/16/2023 Title: Gainful Employment Agency/Subagency: ED / OPE Stage: Final Rule Legal Deadline: None Section 3(f)(1) Significant: No International Impacts: No Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]: No Pandemic Response: No Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. […]
Reason Emma Camp August 10, 2023 The injunction is the latest in a series of setbacks for the Biden administration’s loan forgiveness agenda. A federal court has blocked Biden administration rules that would have provided almost $20 billion in student loan forgiveness, primarily to students who attended colleges that defrauded […]