By Andrew Kreighbaum. In lawsuit filed against Betsy DeVos, Education Corporation of America argues that it needs major financial restructuring but that campuses will have to close without federal student aid. More...
1 novembre 2018
1 novembre 2018
Missed Deadline Stalls DeVos Agenda
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Department says it won't meet November deadline to overhaul borrower-defense and gainful-employment rules, raising the stakes for legal challenges to the Obama-era regulations. More...
1 novembre 2018
Education Department Misstated Support for ACICS
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A senior Education Department official’s recommendation to extend federal approval for a troubled accreditor attributed endorsements of the decision to several peer organizations. The problem? As Politico reported last week, those accreditors say they never backed the move. More...
1 novembre 2018
Frustrations Over Consumer Tool
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Trump administration's changes to a key transparency tool have frustrated even some supporters among veterans' groups. More...
1 novembre 2018
House Passes Bill With 2019 Education, NIH Funding
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The U.S. House of Representatives approved a spending bill Wednesday night that funds 2019 education and biomedical research spending and keeps the government open through Dec. 7. The Senate passed the same bill last week. More...
1 novembre 2018
New York City Sues For-Profit College
By Ashley A. Smith. City's consumer affairs agency's unusual lawsuit accuses Berkeley College of improper recruiting and lending practices. More...
1 novembre 2018
No Process Is Not Due Process
By Colleen Flaherty. AAUP says St. Edward's U flouted norms surrounding shared governance, due process and academic freedom when it dismissed two "squeaky wheel" professors and didn't renew a third. University says otherwise. More...
1 novembre 2018
Dispute Over Faculty Representation on UVA Board
By Colleen Flaherty. The executive committee of the American Association of University Professors chapter at the University of Virginia objects to the process by which the institution’s governing Board of Visitors appointed its faculty representative this year. More...
1 novembre 2018
An Immodest Proposal
By Colleen Flaherty. A conservative professor is under fire for comparing -- facetiously, he says -- Judge Brett Kavanaugh's alleged actions to "spin the bottle," and for suggesting limiting judicial nominees to rapists. More...
1 novembre 2018
Texas Investment Fund Adds Scrutiny Based on Sanctions
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company, known as UTIMCO, has announced that it is adding scrutiny of any investments with ties to countries that are under U.S. sanctions. Those countries include Iran, North Korea, Russia, Sudan and Syria. More...
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