Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum When it last overhauled the Higher Education Act in 2008, Congress required that colleges make disclosures on their websites about the actual net price students would pay if they enrolled on campus. Colleges were supposed to clearly display tools called net price calculators that would […]
Career Education Review CHULA VISTA, Calif., March 27, 2019 — UEI College’s Chula Vista campus is on the move! After 20 years at its current location, UEI College is moving down the street to a new campus located at 1261 Third Ave, Suite A. The new campus is conveniently located […]
Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum Senator Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat, and Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, introduced broad-ranging legislation Tuesday targeting the for-profit college sector. The bill would adjust the so-called 90-10 rule, which limits the amount of revenue for-profit colleges can take in from federal sources, and set […]
PE.com March 12 was quite a day for higher education. On Capitol Hill, not one but two hearings were taking place; one on simplifying the form everyone who wants federal student aid must complete, the other on a very familiar theme: “Oversight of For-Profit Colleges: Protecting Students and Taxpayer Dollars from Predatory Practices.” […]
Education Dive By Ben Unglesbee Dive Brief: With enrollment and tuition revenue under pressure across the country, many colleges — especially small, private nonprofits — are under financial stress and could look to merge or face closure. Of those scenarios, closure is more likely given the difficulties in merging colleges, […]
Forbes By Neal McCluskey If the Varsity Blues bribery and cheating scandal has done anything positive, it has been to shine some light on a basic reality: very little in higher education is truly nonprofit. It turns out some analysts—and residents—of the ivory tower have been making this point for years. But […]
InsideHigherEd By Ashley A. Smith The California Community Colleges Board of Governors agreed Monday to end the use of placement exams in the system. The board was required to make the change because of a new state law that took effect in January 2018. The bill requires the community college system to be […]
InsideHigherEd By Greg Toppo Tolstoy famously wrote that all happy families are alike, while each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. A new white paper suggests that the Tolstoy rule may not apply when it comes to at-risk small colleges: they’re all basically unhappy in the same way. “Long-vulnerable” colleges tend […]
InsideHigherEd By Doug Lederman and Mark Lieberman From Massachusetts to California, as many as two dozen state university systems, individual flagship campuses and other public universities are talking publicly (or quietly) about undertaking ambitious online learning initiatives. Some are focused on enrollment or revenue growth, some on better serving the millions of […]
EducationDive The latter part of 2018 made for a horrendous close to the year for a handful of operators in the for-profit college sector. Education Corporation of America shut down its 70-plus campuses essentially overnight after losing its accreditation in early December. Vatterott, a smaller but not insignificant player, also shuttered that month. […]