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New Research Shows That 89% of Programs Failing Gainful Employment Would be at Public and Private Nonprofit Institutions Were it Applied to All Programs

CECU February 14, 2022 Arlington, VA – A report released earlier today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute, reveals that if the Obama administration’s gainful employment debt-to-earnings test were applied to all programs at all higher education institutions, then 51% of failing programs would be at private nonprofit institutions […]

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Lessons from Gainful Employment: Improvements to Replicate and a Mistake to Avoid

Texas Public Policy Foundation Research Andrew Gillen, Ph.D. February 2022 Executive Summary Higher education needs more accountability, and a promising approach was a set of federal regulations called gainful employment, which sought to identify and terminate federal financial aid for college programs that left students with excessive student loan debt relative to their earnings after […]

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What Will Happen If We Reinstate the Gainful Employment Rule?

Third Way February 10, 2022 In January, the US Department of Education (Department) began a negotiated rulemaking process to determine which career education programs—certifications or degrees like those that prepare students to become auto mechanics, elevator technicians, or medical assistants—are worthy of federal funding due to their ability to provide “gainful employment” opportunities to those […]

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Public colleges must change accreditors every 5 years, Florida bill proposes

Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf February 4, 2022 Dive Brief: Florida’s public colleges would be required to change accreditors and then do so again every five years under a new bill introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. The proposal follows the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, which accredits public institutions in […]

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