Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman March 22,2023 The educational services giant, which has been supplanted in the space by 2U, Coursera and others, sells its online services unit to a private equity firm in an unsettled landscape. Once upon a time, Pearson Education helped Arizona State University become one of the biggest online powers in higher education. […]
Read MoreInside Higher Ed Doug Lederman March 21, 2023 Possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university raises existential questions about the for-profit sector and federal regulation of higher education. A panel of experts weighs them. As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only […]
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WCET Frontiers Lindsey Downs March 21, 2023 Providing uniform consumer protection for distance education students located in all member states is a hallmark of the interstate reciprocity agreement known as the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (SARA). States that chose to join the agreement, often through state legislation signed by their governor, direct that the policies […]
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Daily Caller James Lynch March 17, 2023 The Functional Government Initiative (FGI), a watchdog legal organization, is filing a lawsuit against the Department of Education (ED) for failing to release records regarding student loan forgiveness and the student debt payment moratorium. FGI filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in August 2022 for records from […]
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