Inside Higher Ed Colleen Flaherty August 12, 2021 Gary Stephen Maynard, an adjunct instructor of criminal justice studies who worked at several northern California colleges, is being held in jail on suspicion of arson, according to the Sacramento Bee. Maynard was charged in connection with the Ranch Fire in Lassen County after investigators put a tracker on […]
Read MoreInside Higher Ed Sara Weissman August 12, 2021 In a settlement with Brown, the Justice Department affirms that students with mental health disabilities must be given equal access to higher education. The U.S. Justice Department reached a settlement with Brown University after students who took medical leaves for mental health reasons were refused readmission, even […]
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Higher Ed Dive Rick Seltzer August 10, 2021 Dive Brief: Two shuttered for-profit institutions owe a total of more than $6 million, the U.S. Department of Education’s office of Federal Student Aid said Tuesday. RWM Fiber Optics Inc., which offered network cabling and television installation training in California before closing in 2018, owes the department $2.4 […]
Read MoreDuane Morris Jonathan Helwink August 10, 2021 On August 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) announced that it would be establishing a negotiated rulemaking committee, entitled the “Affordability and Student Loans Committee,” that will, starting in October, meet to begin rewriting certain Title IV-related regulations. The announcement also included a schedule for the […]
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