By Don Francis. On the presidential campaign trail, we’re seeing one so-called progressive candidate after another call for the federal government to enact major new spending programs to hold down tuition at public universities. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The spike in student loan defaults over the last decade has been fueled by students attending for-profit colleges and, to a lesser degree, community colleges, according to a new analysis of millions of federal student loan records. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration early this morning released a trove of new federal data that show how much a college’s former students earn and whether they are successfully repaying their loans. Read more...
By Goldie Blumenstyk. The movements for free community college and other tuition- and debt-free college programs will get a renewed push on Wednesday when President Obama returns to Macomb Community College, in Michigan — along with Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and a longtime community-college professor — to announce a wide-ranging new effort called the College Promise campaign. More...
By Andy Thomason. The for-profit Daymar College will pay out more than $1 million in response to former students’ allegations that the company deceived them, according to a copy of a proposed settlement obtained by The Courier-Journal, a newspaper in Louisville, Ky. All but $200,000 of the $1.4-million amount will be distributed to former students. More...
By Goldie Blumenstyk. The White House on Saturday unveiled the new college-information website that it developed once it abandoned its ill-fated plan to rate colleges. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. According to a new study from Chicago-based CareerBuilder and its Economic Modeling Specialists International unit, the number of new college degrees awarded in the U.S. essentially has stopped growing, rising less than 1 percent each of the last two years. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Giving students two years of free community college is simply an extension of America’s historical emphasis on the importance of education, President Barack Obama told a crowd of about 1,000 at Macomb Community College. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. It was obvious to the South Oakland resident whenever he saw students driving cars paid for back home or heard them discuss exotic travel. But his sense of isolation wasn’t simply economic — or exclusively because he is an African-American at a largely white university. More...
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