Inside Higher Ed Susan H. Greenberg October 25, 2024 The Department of Education had forgiven $17.2 billion in federal student loans for nearly 975,000 borrowers as of April 30, through a program that allows borrowers to seek relief if they’ve been misled or defrauded by their college, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found in a report released […]
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Texas Standard Sarah Asch October 23, 2024 Microcredentials include phlebotomy, welding and IT. Fall means it’s college application season, but a growing number of students are looking for post-high school opportunities outside a traditional four-year university. Hundreds of thousands of young people have pinned their hopes on what are called microcredentials as a quicker pathway […]
Read MoreInside Higher Ed Josue Vasquez and Felida Villarreal October 23, 2024 The new rule doesn’t account for gender, geographic and racial wage gaps, Josue Vasquez and Felida Villarreal write. Hispanic women enter the workforce with two strikes against them. The first strike: They’re women, who earn an average of 82 cents for every dollar paid to men. The […]
Read MoreInside Higher Ed Katherine Knott October 23, 2024 The guidance, first issued in February 2023, was aimed at regulating online program managers—but higher ed groups warned of unintended consequences. The Education Department is officially planning to rescind its controversial guidance on outside contractors—which never actually took effect—within the next four weeks. This latest step, announced in […]
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