By Doug Lederman. Many changes are needed -- in federal financial aid policies, how institutions and others recognize nonformal learning, among other things -- if the roughly 60 percent of undergraduates who are "post-traditional learners" are to get a meaningful postsecondary credential, the American Council on Education says in a new report. More...
By Doug Lederman. Two-year-college administrators say student retention is their top goal, and are likelier than their university peers to have taken an online course themselves, survey finds. More...
By Doug Lederman. This month's episode of the Pulse podcast features an Interview with Mustafa Sualp, CEO and founder of AEFIS, an assessment management platform. More...
By Doug Lederman. Community college students who were offered and took out loans earned more credits and attained higher grade point averages than did peers who did not receive the "nudge" to borrow, according to a study released Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. More...
By Doug Lederman. McGraw-Hill Education has reached agreement with ProctorU to provide remote proctoring for colleges and universities that deliver the ALEKS Placement, Preparation and Learning exams. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education's inspector general said Monday that review of student loan relief applications known as borrower-defense claims should resume after months without a single ruling from the Trump administration. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Congressional lawmakers who are negotiating a final tax reform package will drop a provision to treat graduate students' tuition benefits as taxable income, according to a report from Bloomberg. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Thursday that she viewed the U.S. House of Representatives' update to the Higher Education Act as "conceptually, a starting point," although she declined to address specific provisions and said she hadn't had an opportunity to look at the details of the bill. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Four Democratic attorneys general filed separate lawsuits Thursday seeking to compel Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to grant debt relief to students defrauded by for-profit colleges. More...
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