Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott March 3, 2023 In Education Department’s latest move to ramp up oversight of for-profit colleges, it outlines its authority to hold individuals who control risky institutions financially responsible. The guidance also applies to private nonprofit colleges. Individuals who own or run private colleges—for-profit and nonprofit—could be on the hook for […]
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Federal Student Aid March 1, 2023 On March 23, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) published an Electronic Announcement notifying institutions of higher education (institutions) that, in certain circumstances, it would require additional signatures on an institution’s Program Participation Agreement (PPA) from individuals representing corporations or other legal entities that have, or could have, direct or […]
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U.S. Department of Education March 2, 2023 Guidance clarifies implementation of long-standing statutory provisions Today, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) released guidance outlining how it will implement long-standing provisions in the Higher Education Act that grant the Secretary authority to require leaders of private colleges that fail to operate in a financially responsible way to assume personal liability for the cost […]
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AP News Seung Min Kim and Zeke Miller February 28,2023 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and former California official, as his next labor secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Su, a civil rights attorney and former head of California’s labor department, was central to negotiations […]
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