Inside Higher Ed Jamienne S. Studley February 17, 2022 Accreditation is stepping up its game in an evolving higher education landscape in ways that may surprise you, writes Jamienne Studley. It’s no surprise that accreditation is misunderstood. The accreditation system exists precisely to allow for tailored, predictive judgments applying broad […]
Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik February 17, 2022 Nearly 16,000 borrowers will receive $415 million in borrower defense to repayment discharges following the approval of four new findings. This includes approximately 1,800 former DeVry University students, who will receive approximately $71.7 million in full borrower-defense discharges after the U.S. Department of Education determined that […]
Boston Hearld Chris Woodward February 16, 2022 You don’t have to agree with their politics to get the message protesting truckers sent across the border from Canada: The economy depends on truck drivers. And America just doesn’t have enough of them. According to the American Trucking Association, the nation is […]
KFOX14 Erika Castillo February 14, 2022 EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — The sound of success for many people has changed when it comes to seeking education after high school or later in life. A growing need for technical workers across the country has triggered a wave of higher enrollment in trade schools. […]
CECU February 14, 2022 Arlington, VA – A report released earlier today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute, reveals that if the Obama administration’s gainful employment debt-to-earnings test were applied to all programs at all higher education institutions, then 51% of failing programs would […]
Texas Public Policy Foundation Research Andrew Gillen, Ph.D. February 2022 Executive Summary Higher education needs more accountability, and a promising approach was a set of federal regulations called gainful employment, which sought to identify and terminate federal financial aid for college programs that left students with excessive student loan debt […]
Third Way February 10, 2022 In January, the US Department of Education (Department) began a negotiated rulemaking process to determine which career education programs—certifications or degrees like those that prepare students to become auto mechanics, elevator technicians, or medical assistants—are worthy of federal funding due to their ability to provide […]
Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf February 4, 2022 Dive Brief: Florida’s public colleges would be required to change accreditors and then do so again every five years under a new bill introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. The proposal follows the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, […]
Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik February 10, 2022 Education Department sets out some ideas, but they are still a long way from completion. One idea is to require all colleges to report some information on their outcomes. The U.S. Education Department has proposed to again impose regulations to measure the gainful employment […]
National Review Steven Taylor February 10, 2022 If regulators are going to start asking if some kinds of higher education are actually worth it, it would be pointless to exempt others from scrutiny. Colleges and universities proudly flaunt their “nonprofit” status while many of their graduates are mired in debt and their highest-paid […]