By Rick Seltzer. Three-judge panel says parties will condemn themselves to endless years of acrimonious, divisive and expensive litigation unless they settle desegregation lawsuit. More...
6 janvier 2019
6 janvier 2019
Newbury College provides early notice in closing announcement
By Rick Seltzer. The small private college was founded in 1962 in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston as the Newbury School of Business. It moved multiple times, settling in Brookline, outside the city, in 1982. It became Newbury Junior College in 1971, changed its name to Newbury College in 1985, and became a baccalaureate college in 1994. More...
6 janvier 2019
Career Education Corp. Settles With States, Forgives Student Debt
By Paul Fain. Career Education Corp. on Thursday announced that it had settled with attorneys general from 48 states and Washington, D.C., over a five-year investigation. The AGs had been probing "unfair and deceptive practices," including allegations about the for-profit college company "misleading prospective students about actual costs, the transferability of credits, accreditation, program offerings and accurate job placement rates." More...
6 janvier 2019
Democrats Want Investigation of Accreditor's Restoration
By Paul Fain. Leading Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday called for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General to investigate the department's decision last month to restore federal recognition for a controversial national accreditor with a focus on for-profit colleges. More...
6 janvier 2019
Growing Blue-Collar Labor Shortage
By Paul Fain. Converging demographic, educational and economic trends have reversed a decades-long trend in the U.S. jobs market, according to a new analysis from the Conference Board, making it harder for companies to find workers in blue-collar and low-paying service occupations than in highly educated, white-collar ones. More...
6 janvier 2019
EdX’s Struggle for Sustainability
By Lindsay McKenzie. It’s no secret that the nonprofit online learning provider edX was founded with rather idealistic notions about providing education to all, and not much of a business plan. More...
6 janvier 2019
Grand Canyon’s OPM Business Takes Shape
By Lindsay McKenzie. Grand Canyon University's for-profit spin-off takes a bold step into the online program management space with acquisition of Orbis Education. More...
6 janvier 2019
Universe of Doctoral Universities Expands
By Greg Toppo. Carnegie classification's new category of “doctoral/professional universities" acknowledges growing role of non-research-oriented doctoral work in graduate education. More...
6 janvier 2019
Students Charged in Vandalism of Abolitionist's Statue
By Greg Toppo. St. John Fisher College said two of its students were charged in the vandalism of a statue of Frederick Douglass near downtown Rochester, N.Y. More...
6 janvier 2019
Senate Passes Bill to Streamline FAFSA
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Senate on Thursday passed bipartisan legislation that would streamline applications for student aid and enrollment in income-driven loan repayment plans. The bill, dubbed the FAFSA Act, would do so by amending the tax code and the Higher Education Act to allow the IRS to share taxpayer information directly with the Education Department. More...
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