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Insider Ayelet Sheffey March 27, 2023 Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the Education Department with recommendations to better protect student-loan borrowers. She urged stronger oversight on for-profit institutions that engage in predatory behavior. She also recommended oversight for OPM providers, and quick implementation of the gainful employment rule. […]

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Ed Surge Mordecai I. Brownlee March 23, 2023 This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social […]

EDSCOOP Lindsay McKenzie March 20, 2023 Educause is continuing to press the U.S. Department of Education to revise its oversight of edtech providers. Educause is continuing to work with its institutional members and other higher education organizations to get the U.S. Department of Education to reconsider its recent guidance on […]

Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman March 22,2023 The educational services giant, which has been supplanted in the space by 2U, Coursera and others, sells its online services unit to a private equity firm in an unsettled landscape. Once upon a time, Pearson Education helped Arizona State University become one of the biggest […]

Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman March 21, 2023 Possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university raises existential questions about the for-profit sector and federal regulation of higher education. A panel of experts weighs them. As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 […]

WCET Frontiers  Lindsey Downs March 21, 2023 Providing uniform consumer protection for distance education students located in all member states is a hallmark of the interstate reciprocity agreement known as the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA). States that chose to join the agreement, often through state legislation signed by their […]

Daily Caller James Lynch March 17, 2023 The Functional Government Initiative (FGI), a watchdog legal organization, is filing a lawsuit against the Department of Education (ED) for failing to release records regarding student loan forgiveness and the student debt payment moratorium. FGI filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in […]

Committee on Education & The Workforce March 17, 2023 Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) decision to defend the ability of Congress to conduct oversight on the Biden administration’s costly student loan bailout: “Once again, the Biden Administration […]