Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik February 10, 2022 Education Department sets out some ideas, but they are still a long way from completion. One idea is to require all colleges to report some information on their outcomes. The U.S. Education Department has proposed to again impose regulations to measure the gainful employment of graduates of for-profit colleges […]
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National Review Steven Taylor February 10, 2022 If regulators are going to start asking if some kinds of higher education are actually worth it, it would be pointless to exempt others from scrutiny. Colleges and universities proudly flaunt their “nonprofit” status while many of their graduates are mired in debt and their highest-paid employee is their football coach. […]
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Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf February 7, 2022 Dive Brief: Sixteen experts and advocacy organizations in higher education are calling for stricter U.S. Department of Education oversight of accreditors, particularly in how they handle colleges with poor student outcomes. The groups and individuals wrote to the Education Department late last month recommending ways to make the evaluation […]
Read MoreHigher Ed Dive February 7, 2022 Natalie Schwartz Sen. Elizabeth Warren and two other senators asked eight OPMs for information about their businesses, citing concerns about tuition-share deals. Last year, a decade-old $115,000 online master’s degree in social work made waves. The two-year program, at the University of Southern California, left many of its graduates with […]
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