By Charles Huckabee. Federal investigators have concluded that the freshman who stabbed four people at the University of California at Merced last fall before he was shot to death by the campus police was “self-radicalized” and inspired by ISIS, but was not connected to organized terror groups, the Merced Sun-Star reported. More...
By Brock Read. Should students who say they’ve been defrauded by their colleges be guaranteed a chance to take their cases to court? When the U.S. Department of Education said recently that they should, advocates for student borrowers were encouraged. But now, after three days of negotiations over a rule intended to protect those borrowers, it’s still unclear whether such a guarantee will take shape. More...
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Education Department has removed the “independent monitor” of campuses formerly owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc. after an Associated Press investigation revealed several conflicts of interest in the arrangement. The AP reports that the department confirmed it would drop the law firm of Hogan Marren Babbo & Rose as the overseer of the Zenith Education Group’s management of the campuses. More...
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of John B. King Jr. to be secretary of education by a vote of 49 to 40. Mr. King has served as acting education secretary since December, when Arne Duncan stepped down from the permanent post. More...
By Andy Thomason. According to a Chronicle analysis of data released on Friday, 159 degree-granting private colleges failed the U.S. Education Department’s financial-responsibility test, which seeks to quantify the financial health of proprietary and nonprofit institutions, for the 2013-14 academic year. That’s one more than failed the year before. More...
By Courtney Kueppers. For the past 18 months, Grand Canyon Education Inc. has been working to convert from for-profit to nonprofit status. That process came to a halt on Friday, when Grand Canyon announced that its accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, would not support the change. More...
By Rio Fernandes. A committee charged with considering a change in the Harvard Law School’s seal because of its connection to a slave-owning family, the Royalls, has recommended its removal, reports The Harvard Crimson. More...
By Rio Fernandes. When the University of Texas at Austin’s longtime architecture dean announced last week that he planned to take a job at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, and cited Texas’ controversial campus-carry gun law as a reason for the move. More...
By Charles Huckabee. Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas on Tuesday ordered a $17-million cut in spending on the state’s public colleges over the next four months to help close a gap in expected revenue for the fiscal year that ends June 30, the Associated Press reported. More...
By Andy Thomason. His political rise, the conventional wisdom goes, has been based on the support of poorly educated Americans. “Donald Trump’s surge is all about less-educated Americans,” read a headline in The Washington Post last July. “I love the poorly educated,” Mr. Trump proclaimed after he won the Nevada primary last month. More...
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