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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Inside Higher Ed Maria Carrasco April 12, 2022 Colleges are creating new funds and programs to pay students for work when employers won’t. It’s one way to equalize internship opportunities, which have historically excluded low-income students. Internships tend to advantage students who are already advantaged—essentially those who can afford to work for cheap or free. […]
Read MoreInside Higher Ed Doug Lederman April 26, 2022 ECMC Group, the student loan guarantee agency turned nonprofit education services company, has quietly announced that it would close the three remaining campuses of the former Corinthian Colleges for-profit chain it purchased in 2015. Altierus Career College, as the former Corinthian campuses are known, “will engage in an orderly […]
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