By Andrew Kreighbaum. More than 200 colleges have given the U.S. Department of Education notice that they will appeal gainful employment ratings that found their programs to be failing or close to failing. Read more...
18 février 2017
18 février 2017
Support for Income-Share Agreements Over Loans
By Andrew Kreighbaum. When provided with specific information on what their monthly payments would be, more than half of students and parents in a national survey said they would prefer using an income-share agreement to traditional student loans for financing a college education, according to an American Enterprise Institute report released Thursday. Read more...
18 février 2017
Communication Chill
By Andrew Kreighbaum. As EPA freezes grants, agencies issue internal guidance to employees on outside communications, stirring fears of political interference in science. Read more...
18 février 2017
Court Sides With Drug Legalization Group in Speech Dispute
By Jake New. Iowa State University cannot bar a student group from using the university’s logo and mascot on T-shirts advocating the legalization of marijuana, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. Read more...
18 février 2017
Report: Hiring of Women's Coaches Stagnates
By Jake New. While Title IX has helped the number of female college athletes soar 500 percent since 1972, the same cannot be said about women coaches. In the last four decades, the percentage of women’s teams being coached by women has fallen from 90 percent to 40 percent. Read more...
18 février 2017
Conservative, Libertarian Groups Propose Campus Free Speech Bill
By Jake New. Several conservative and libertarian organizations are urging state lawmakers to adopt legislation that aims to "restore and protect freedom of thought and expression" on college campuses. Read more...
18 février 2017
‘Every Campus a Refuge,’ but Can Refugees Come?
By Elizabeth Redden. For a group of faculty members, students and staff at a Pennsylvania community college prepared to sponsor a refugee family, their plans are on hold. Read more...
18 février 2017
Will Data Error Threaten For-Profit Regulation?
By Paul Fain. For-profit-college advocates cite Obama administration data goof on loan repayment rates as justification for revisiting borrower-defense and gainful-employment rules. Read more...
18 février 2017
Feds Urge Renewal for Controversial Accreditor
By Paul Fain. The U.S. Department of Education has recommended a renewal of recognition for the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, a controversial regional accreditor of two-year colleges in California and other Western states. Read more...
18 février 2017
Oregon Promise Influencing Students' Decisions
By Paul Fain. Oregon's free community college scholarship, which began last year, is encouraging more students to consider going to college and to feel more confident about being able to afford it, according the results of a survey conducted by Education Northwest, a nonprofit research group. Read more...
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