By Greg Toppo. U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is among a group of high-flying investors who have lost millions of dollars investing in the disgraced Silicon Valley startup Theranos Inc. More...
The $2 Million Year
By Greg Toppo. It took more than a decade to arrive, but the leader of a midsize education nonprofit in 2016 earned a lump sum totaling almost $1.4 million, bringing his total compensation that year to nearly $2 million. More...
Loan Refinancing Site Admits 'Founder' Is Fake
By Greg Toppo. The revelation comes courtesy of The Chronicle of Higher Education, which reported on Tuesday that after it spent more than a week trying to verify Cloud’s existence, the company that owns the Student Loan Report admitted that Cloud was fake. More...
Penn State's Outing Club Can't Go Out
By Greg Toppo. After this spring, the Penn State University Outing Club isn’t going out anymore. More...
Eligible for Aid, but Not Getting It
By Ashley A. Smith. Despite filing federal applications and being eligible for aid, many low-income students in California are going without millions of dollars in Pell Grants. More...
Decreasing Defaults in Indiana
By Ashley A. Smith. Community colleges faced with negative perceptions over loans and a growing number of borrowers defaulting are facing pressure to provide better financial literacy education to their students. For many community colleges, only a small minority of students borrow, however, a high rate is problematic to the borrowers and the college. More...
Why Part-Time Success Matters
By Ashley A. Smith. A new report from EAB shows that part-time student success in community colleges is key to closing achievement gaps for minority students. More...
What Community College Leaders Think on Enrollment, Completion, Presidential Pipeline and More
By Ashley A. Smith. Enrollment concerns and finances remain the biggest challenges community college presidents say they face. More...
Tennessee Lawmakers Reject Full-Time Completion Plan
By Ashley A. Smith. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Tennessee rejected Republican governor Bill Haslam's proposal to strongly encourage the state's scholarship students to graduate in four years, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. More...
Accreditor Rejects Connecticut Merger Plan
By Ashley A. Smith. The New England Association of Schools & Colleges, the accrediting agency for the Connecticut State College and University system, rejected a proposal Tuesday that would have merged the state's 12 community colleges. More...