NBC BAY AREA By Jonathan Bloom • Published March 30, 2020 • Updated on April 4, 2020 at 9:42 am Amid stay-at-home orders, the Academy of Art has opened up a treasure trove of online tools to help instructors continue teaching art and design classes while campus is closed. READ […]
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 […]
AEI.org Over the past couple years, career and technical education has garnered a lot of attention. Politico reported that 49 states and Washington, DC, enacted 241 career and technical education–related laws, executive actions, and budget provisions in 2017.1 The National Governors Association has tagged career and technical education as one […]
Politico By Michael Stratford (mstratford@politico.com; @mstratford) January 17, 2019 The Trump administration is threatening to punish California regulators over their decision to turn away a large for-profit college seeking state approval for funding under the GI Bill. At issue is California’s decision to avoid taking action on Ashford University’s application for approval […]
NASFAA By Joelle Fredman, NASFAA Staff Reporter January 16, 2019 Higher education stakeholders convened in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to begin the first of three sessions of negotiated rulemaking, or “neg reg,” to consider changes to the federal regulations on accreditation and other issues based on draft regulatory language released earlier this month […]
Politico Why the Department of Education wants to get behind a popular—but unaccredited—new style of education. By MICHAEL STRATFORD 01/16/2019 As Americans look to build the skills they need for the fast-changing job market, a new type of education provider has swept onto the scene: the coding boot camp, an intensive, […]
CECU.org 1/15/2019 A new Gallup research study of student satisfaction among graduates of a selection of the nation’s career education colleges and universities found a 62% increase in median personal earnings for the graduates surveyed. The Gallup research, commissioned by CECU, was conducted Sept. 25-Oct. 19, 2018 and includes responses from 3,203 […]
EdSurge By Sydney Johnson January 8, 2019 Coding bootcamps have been quick to adopt income-share agreements, or ISAs, as they work to figure out funding models amid a fast-changing industry. The model typically entails students paying back a portion of their salary after completing a program and landing a job, rather […]
The74Million.org by Laura McKenna January 9, 2019 With a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rutgers University, New Jersey’s flagship public college, 22-year-old Rachel Van Dyks expected to have a good job by now. A professional job with a proper salary and benefits would enable her to move out of her […]