Inside Higher Ed Lauren Coffey December 13, 2023 University relationships with online program managers could be turned on their heads in 2024, as the government considers more oversight into OPM contracts. After months of uncertainty about whether the federal government would revise its guidelines for how colleges work with online program management firms and other outside […]
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FULCRUM Kristen Axtman December 13, 2023 Axtman is a undergraduate student for Medill on the Hill, a program of Northwestern University in which students serve as mobile journalists reporting on events in and around Washington, D.C. The Biden administration has taken aim at the for-profit college industry with a new rule to help prevent students […]
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Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf December 12, 2023 Some Democrats expressed fears that for-profit programs would try to skirt consumer protection guardrails proposed in the legislation. Dive Brief: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce advanced a highly watched bill Tuesday that would allow students to use federal Pell Grants on short-term programs. The […]
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Minding the Campus Andrew Gillen December 8, 2023 One critique of those on the left is that they’ve weaponized the legal and administrative systems against their political opponents. This isn’t necessarily new, or even unique to the left. Republican President Richard Nixon tried to weaponize the IRS to threaten and punish opponents. Decades later, Democrat President Barack […]
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