Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee January 24, 2019 With enrollment declines driving down revenue since 2013, NAUH is closing its ground-based locations to reduce costs and is moving to cut enough staff to save $1.5 million in payroll expenses by the end of the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal […]
Education Next This year’s meeting of the for-profit higher-education industry’s principal membership association was held at Walt Disney World—which, for the 1,000 people who attended, might have seemed the second most magical place on earth. First place, at the moment, is Washington, D.C., where friends and allies have created a regulatory reprieve […]
Inside Higher Ed by Andrea Kreighbaum The Trump administration says it wants more innovation in higher education. And it believes rewriting the rules for college accrediting agencies is the best way to encourage innovation. In an exclusive interview with Inside Higher Ed, the administration’s top higher education official described the philosophy […]
Ed Surge by Sydney Johnson Grand Canyon Education, a publicly-traded education company, announced today it has sold Grand Canyon University for $875 million to form a nonprofit. The move is the latest step in Grand Canyon University’s slow path towards reverting to a nonprofit institution. The Phoenix-based university was founded […]
National Review Anyone living in the Washington, D.C., metro area has surely seen or heard advertisements for the University of Maryland University College, an open-enrollment branch of the state’s university system. The school saturates the TV and radio airwaves, as well as city buses and the metro subway system, with […]
Chronicle of Higher Education A Sector in Flux: How For-Profit Higher Ed Has Shifted By Dan Bauman and Goldie Blumenstyk MARCH 13, 2018 Over the last two years, many of the for-profit-college industry’s biggest players have merged with onetime competitors, moved from for-profit to nonprofit status, or left the business altogether. […]
BuzzFeed News Why Betsy DeVos Just Might Be A Cosmetology School’s Savior Pro Way Hair School in Stone Mountain, Georgia, was in danger of shutting down due to Obama-era student loan rules. But along with the rest of the cosmetology school industry, Pro Way may have found a savior in […]
Inside Higher Ed GOP Seeks to Shift Accountability for Colleges While for-profits get the relief they’ve long clamored for, the GOP’s proposed overhaul of the Higher Education Act would add performance-funding standards for most colleges. By Andrew Kreighbaum December 4, 2017 Education groups scrambled Friday to dissect a massive bill from Republicans in […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education For-Profit Colleges Find Few Reasons to Lobby a Friendlier Education Dept. Steve Gunderson, president and chief executive of Career Education Colleges and Universities: “We have an administration that is trying to deal with everyone on a fair and equal basis.” By Eric Kelderman AUGUST 28, 2017 […]
Inside Higher Ed For-Profit Graduate Schools Popular With Black Women Consumer advocates are concerned by the relatively large proportion of black women graduate students who attend for-profits. By Ashley A. Smith July 25, 2017 Graduate student enrollment is declining at for-profit institutions, but the sector continues to resonate with one particular […]