The Hechinger Report Lilah Burke April 30, 2022 Institutions are quietly resisting a proposal to strip federal funding from low-payoff programs Vanessa Valenciano had high hopes for the certificate she earned at public Aims Community College in Colorado. After all, colleges have been advertising these kinds of credentials as the next best thing to a […]
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Cal Matters Emma Hall, Emily Forschen, Emily Margaretten and Eden Taylor April 30, 2022 IN SUMMARY California’s community college enrollment plummeted during the pandemic. Here are the stories of some of the students who left. California community colleges have seen their enrollment drop by about a fifth during the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 300,000 […]
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USA Today Chris Quintana April 28, 2022 Amid constant pressure from progressive lawmakers for widespread student loan debt forgiveness, the Biden administration on Thursday announced a new round of targeted relief – this time for past students of a beauty school that authorities say failed to train students in its cosmetology programs “how to cut hair” in some […]
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Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf April 28, 2022 Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education plans to issue its proposed Title IX regulation governing how colleges and K-12 schools should investigate and punish sexual violence in May, and not this month as it said previously. Catherine Lhamon, who leads the Education Department’s Office for Civil […]
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