Higher Ed Dive Rick Seltzer May 5, 2022 Dive Brief: Universal Technical Institute has agreed to buy Concorde Career Colleges in a $50 million deal, it announced Tuesday, making a move into healthcare programs as it seeks to grow revenue and diversify its postsecondary training offerings. Concorde, a 17-campus for-profit chain focused on healthcare education, […]
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Community College Daily David Baime May 4, 2022 Numerous community colleges have not yet submitted their Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) Annual Performance Reports, covering activity funded between January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2021. Institutions that fail to submit the report to the U.S. Education Department (ED) by the May 6 deadline will […]
Read MoreHigher Ed Dive Natalie Schwartz May 3, 2022 Dive Brief: Transfer enrollment dropped 6.9% this spring compared to last year, with upward transfers from two-year colleges to four-year institutions bearing the brunt of the declines, according to data released Tuesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Those upward transfers dropped 11.6% year over year this spring. […]
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget May 3, 2022 Amid criticisms that student debt cancelation would be costly and regressive, the Biden Administration is apparently considering means-testing debt cancellation. Specifically, reports suggest the Administration may cancel $10,000 or more of federal student debt for individual borrowers making less than $125,000 or $150,000 per year and households making less than $250,000 […]
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