EducationDive By Ben Unglesbee Financially troubled Argosy University suffered a potentially fatal regulatory blow Wednesday, after months of owner Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH) trying to sell off the college system. The U.S. Department of Education blocked Argosy from access to further Title IV aid by denying its application for […]
Inside Higher Ed The U.S. Department of Education is contemplating going back to the drawing board on complex rules governing authority to operate online programs in multiple states. By Lindsay McKenzie January 23, 2019 Controversial regulations requiring online institutions to be authorized to operate in multiple states were up for debate […]
Chronicle of Higher Education By Eric Hoover January 09, 2019 The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday made many people happy. No, really. Financial-aid officers, college-access advocates, and education wonks all cheered the news that a vexing part of the federal-aid process had just gotten simpler. Here’s what happened. The […]
Chronicle By Eric Kelderman January 07, 2019 The federal law governing much of higher education is some five years past its expiration date, with little chance that Congress will reauthorize it before the 2020 elections. Instead, the U.S. Department of Education has begun a broad regulatory overhaul to reshape core issues under […]
Inside Higher Ed As the for-profit college chain Education Corporation of America navigated financial turmoil, accreditation challenges and federal sanctions during the past two years, it drew on the expertise of a board member with deep experience in federal higher education policy. John Kline, chairman of the U.S. House of […]
Education Dive Dive Brief: The Education Department’s internal oversight office on Wednesday announced it will review the agency’s decision to reinstate its permanent recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS), The Associated Press reported. The move is in response to a letter sent on Monday by the top congressional […]
Education Dive Dive Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to review the legal doctrine called the Auer deference, which gives federal agencies more power over interpreting their own regulations, The National Law Journal reported. The doctrine stems from a 1997 decision that directs courts to enforce a regulation as it […]
Inside Higher Ed The U.S. Department of Education imposes the highest level of cash management, known as HCM2. That means a college — with little or no cash — must first pay out of its own funds the disbursement to students and then later submit requests for reimbursement to the […]
Inside Higher Ed Andrew Kreighbaum The U.S. Department of Education recently announced it would miss a key deadline to repeal an Obama administration rule that seeks to hold career-education programs accountable for producing graduates with unmanageable debt. Doing away with the so-called gainful-employment regulation is a top priority of the Trump administration. […]
CC Daily BY ELLIE ASHFORD Source: Veterans Education Success, “Postsecondary Non-Completion Among Veterans: Contributing Factors and Implications,” November 2018. Military veterans in postsecondary education are more likely to earn an associate degree or certificate than their non-veteran peers. But veterans tend to take longer to complete. That’s one of the […]