Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee This is the second article in a three-part series on the broader issues at play as higher ed debates proposed new rules governing topics such as online learning and new education models. Check back next week for our final installment, and click here to read […]
Education Dive by Ben Unglesbee Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) and its remaining assets, including several Art Institutes, face a “dire” cash shortage and lack funds to pay for operations and federal aid stipends to students, according to Mark Dottore, the court-appointed receiver managing DCEH assets. Dottore told Education Department official Diane Auer Jones […]
Education Dive by Ben Unglesbee The Education Department is “not wedded” to the language it issued in proposed regulations being debated in an ongoing negotiated rulemaking process, Diane Auer Jones, the department’s principal deputy under secretary, told an audience of accreditation professionals in Washington on Tuesday. “Clearly we came to the table with some […]
Politico By Michael Stratford (mstratford@politico.com; @mstratford) January 17, 2019 The Trump administration is threatening to punish California regulators over their decision to turn away a large for-profit college seeking state approval for funding under the GI Bill. At issue is California’s decision to avoid taking action on Ashford University’s application for approval […]
Career Education Review The U.S. Department of Education has release the list of committee members. Here is the list. For additional information including the materials handed out visit the negotiated rulemaking page here.
Education Dive by Ben Unglesbee January 7, 2019 ECA’s sudden closure was indicative of broader issues in the for-profit sector and raised far more questions than the company or regulators have been able to answer so far. Chief among those questions was why ECA had no teach-out plans in place […]
InsideHigherEd by Andrew Kreighbaum and Paul Fain January 7, 2019 The Education Department’s proposals for upcoming negotiated rule-making process would narrow the responsibilities of accreditors and modify federal definitions for credit hour and distance education. In a package of highly detailed proposals set to be released today, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivers on […]
Inside Higher Ed New data posted by the Office of Federal Student Aid Thursday showed the Education Department received 35,000 new borrower-defense claims between July and the end of September. But the department didn’t approve or deny any claims over that period. FSA said the lack of progress on those claims was […]
Chronicle The announcement on Wednesday that the Education Corporation of America was closing some 70 colleges that it owns was a big shock to tens of thousands of students and employees on those campuses. It was much less of a surprise to some higher-education experts who have been following the […]
Education Dive. October 19, 2018 Dive Brief: For-profit college operator Education Corporation of America (ECA) filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Alabama against the Education Department and its Secretary Betsy DeVos that asks the court to appoint a receiver to oversee the company’s assets so it can […]