CalMatters by Felicia Mello he turmoil in the for-profit college industry has affected California as much as any state, with the closures of major chains leaving thousands of students deeply in debt, their educations on hold. Meanwhile, the state agency in charge of regulating private colleges and vocational schools has struggled […]
Inside Higher Ed by Lee Gardner Paul J. LeBlanc remembers the day, about a decade ago, when a public research university in New England announced that it was starting an online M.B.A. Southern New Hampshire University, where LeBlanc is president, had just rolled out its own ambitious online program and started its […]
Inside Higher Ed by Steven Mintz If I were forced to predict what higher education will look like ten years from now, I’d say this: Small liberal arts colleges will be limited to a handful of highly endowed institutions. It’s not just under-endowed, rural colleges with fewer than a thousand […]
EducationDive By Ben Unglesbee January 3, 2019 NAU’s fortunes have fallen with the for-profit sector as a whole. Its exit from the Nasdaq exchange may be largely symbolic for non-investors, but it reflects real financial troubles that have affected many in the sector, including two large for-profit operators that abruptly […]