Inside Higher Ed Most of the undergraduates headed for or returning to college this year will be inundated with welcome week and orientation events designed to connect them with classmates, help them find extracurricular activities and clubs, and make them feel at home on campus. The festivals and concerts may […]
Career Education Review CHULA VISTA, Calif., June 12, 2019 — UEI College, a national provider of postsecondary career education, will celebrate the move of the Chula Vista campus to its new location at 1261 3rd Avenue, Suite A. The Grand Opening celebration will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum National American University will close campuses and focus on online programs in response to declining enrollments. But the for-profit chain’s finances have drawn scrutiny from regulators. As Democratic lawmakers raked many for-profit colleges over the coals during the past decade, National American University, a chain based […]
Committee on Education & Labor WASHINGTON | April 4, 2019 Committee Democrats used a “bipartisan” higher education hearing to vilify a sector of postsecondary education that serves approximately 10% of America’s students looking for specific career skills. No one disagrees that bad actors in education, at any level, proclaiming any […]
Campus Technology By Dian Schaffhauser Fully online courses are more likely to drive enrollment growth, according to a recent survey of institutions from Quality Matters and Eduventures Research, the research division of ACT/NRCCUA. Most respondents said that courses that were 100 percent online at their schools had grown between 2017 and 2018; about […]
Fox Business By Brittany De Lea The Trump administration, seeking to tackle the mounting student loan debtOpens a New Window. issue, is weighing the possibility of requiring collegesOpens a New Window. to share some of the financial burden. Officials outlined a proposal to require colleges that accept taxpayer funds to “have skin in the game […]
Evolllution by Melissa Vito | Vice Provost for Academic Innovation (Interim), UT San Antonio A few weeks ago, a colleague and I were discussing a recent study, which found approximately 43 percent of recent college graduates are underemployed in their first jobs. While this is an alarming number, my colleague was […]
CECU The nation’s postsecondary career education colleges and universities produced 597,337 career professionals in 2017 according to a report released earlier this week. These results come despite an overall decrease in the number of schools and students in the sector, but they do not slow the sector’s “Campaign to Create […]
Career Education Review By Tony Guida, Partner, Education Group of Duane Morris LLP December 2018 President Trump’s approach to the Presidency shares much in common with Cecil B. DeMille’s filmmaking. And the reaction of critics to both President Trump and Mr. DeMille have many parallels. DeMille’s films were known for […]
Inside Higher Ed Jason Camacho, a blind resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., is suing 50 colleges over the accessibility of their websites. The 50 lawsuits, filed in November, say the colleges are in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, as their websites are not accessible to people with disabilities. Camacho […]