By Greg Toppo. The deadly Camp Fire barely touched rural Butte College in Northern California -- but it likely changed the two-year college forever as hundreds of students, staff and faculty members lost everything. More...
16 décembre 2018
16 décembre 2018
Consolidating Instead of Merging
By Greg Toppo. As some small private colleges merge with one another, others simply contract, closing up branch campuses -- some of them long-standing and hundreds of miles away. More...
16 décembre 2018
Ganging Up on a Student Journalist?
By Greg Toppo. LIU Post student government association demands that President Kimberly Cline and the other officials publicly apologize for berating a co-editor of the student newspaper for its coverage of anonymous pamphlets targeting Cline and others. More...
16 décembre 2018
Outreach to Ex-Students of Closed For-Profit
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education this week launched efforts to reach the roughly 20,000 students affected by the sudden closure of for-profit college chain Education Corporation of America. More...
16 décembre 2018
DeVos to Cancel $150 Million in Student Loan Debt
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Education Department said Thursday that it would carry out part of the Obama administration's 2016 borrower-defense rule, automatically canceling the student loan debt of 15,000 borrowers whose colleges closed between November 2013 and December 2018. More...
16 décembre 2018
Scrutinizing Banks' Deals With Colleges for Student Accounts
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Analysis shows students are charged higher fees on prepaid accounts when colleges are paid to promote the accounts. But report indicates improvements for students after 2015 rule added new protections. More...
16 décembre 2018
New Call for Standardizing Job Placement Rates
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The federal government, states and accreditors should standardize how they calculate job placement numbers for higher ed programs, according to a new report from the Institute for College Access and Success, a progressive group that focuses on affordability and access in higher education. More...
16 décembre 2018
Farm Bill Includes Wins for Colleges
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The $867 billion farm bill passed by Congress this week includes important wins for land-grant institutions, especially historically black colleges. More...
16 décembre 2018
Trump Administration Scrutinizes Fetal Tissue Research
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Science advocacy groups seek to make facts on research clear as Department of Health and Human Services conducts comprehensive review of research following pressure from conservatives. More...
16 décembre 2018
Education Department Changes to TEACH Program
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education will give teachers another chance to demonstrate their eligibility for the federal TEACH Grant program, according to a report by NPR. More...
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