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DeVos rightly stands firm on education reform

DeVos rightly stands firm on education reform

VVDailyPress By Gerard Scimeca InsideSources.com Even prior to the Democrats winning back the House in last year’s midterms, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has long been on the left’s “hit” list. The publication Inside Higher Ed dubbed DeVos one of the “biggest losers” of the mid-term election. To newly emboldened Democrats […]

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How Bad Is For-Profit Higher Education, Actually?

How Bad Is For-Profit Higher Education, Actually?

The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal For about fifteen years, from 1995 to 2010, enrollments grew rapidly in the for-profit higher education sector, but since then have fallen substantially. The reason for the decline is mainly the overt hostility to for-profits during the Obama administration. The Department of […]

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California Presses Forward with Bill to Ban OPM Tuition Share Arrangements

California Presses Forward with Bill to Ban OPM Tuition Share Arrangements

Cooley Last week, the California Assembly Higher Education Committee unanimously voted to advance a bill designed to exclude OPMs and service providers from tuition share arrangements. AB 1345 would broaden California’s existing language prohibiting schools from providing any incentive compensation payments to any employee or third party for success in […]

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Feds Recommend Colleges Clarify Financial Aid Offers

Feds Recommend Colleges Clarify Financial Aid Offers

Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum The Education Department this week issued recommendations for colleges to improve the transparency of financial aid offered to students. The department’s guidance suggests college financial aid offers should: Avoid referring to financial aid offers, which can include loans and Federal Work-Study, as “awards.” Include the full […]

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Which Colleges Failed the Latest Financial Responsibility Test?

Which Colleges Failed the Latest Financial Responsibility Test?

RobertKelchen.com Every year, the U.S. Department of Education is required to issue a financial responsibility score for private nonprofit and for-profit colleges, which serves as a crude measure of an institution’s financial health. Colleges are scored on a scale from -1.0 to 3.0, with colleges scoring 0.9 or below failing the test […]

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Why Arizona State is using a for-profit to help expand workforce partnerships

Why Arizona State is using a for-profit to help expand workforce partnerships

Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee It’s been five years since Arizona State University first partnered with Starbucks to provide tuition-free higher education to the coffee seller’s eligible employees. To date the initiative, which subsidizes 100% of employees’ tuition for dozens of degree programs, has enrolled 18,000 workers and graduated around 2,400. […]

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A Crisis in Confidence in Higher Ed

A Crisis in Confidence in Higher Ed

GALLUP By Stephanie Marken Confidence in higher education in the U.S. has decreased significantly since 2015, more so than for any other U.S. institution that Gallup measures. This drop in confidence in the higher education industry comes after Gallup detected a similar decline in the public’s view that higher education is available to […]

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Who’s next?

Who’s next?

Committee on Education & Labor WASHINGTON | April 4, 2019 Committee Democrats used a “bipartisan” higher education hearing to vilify a sector of postsecondary education that serves approximately 10% of America’s students looking for specific career skills. No one disagrees that bad actors in education, at any level, proclaiming any […]

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New Rules for Accreditors

New Rules for Accreditors

Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials opened champagne and shook hands with negotiators Wednesday after a lengthy rule-making process led to consensus on a broad array of changes to federal standards governing college accreditors and online education. Those changes will allow colleges to get faster approval […]

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