Higher Education News

Maryland Wins $2.6 Million in Loan Forgiveness for Brightwood College Students

November 16, 2020 - The Maryland Attorney General reached a settlement with Brightwood College to provide loan relief to Maryland students. Any loans owed directly to the school by Maryland students will be cancelled and, [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Focusing on Student Veterans’ Strengths

A new research article identifies the strengths that students who are military veterans bring with them to higher education. Katie Sullivan and Kay Yoon, both associate professors of communication at the University of Colorado at [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Steep Decline in Summer Loans

Enrollment at Some For-Profit Colleges is Way Up. Many Expect That Trend to Continue

New York Times: Online Learning Should Return to a Supporting Role

As the coronavirus pandemic forces schools and college campuses to go online, the delivery model of education — largely unchanged for centuries — has suddenly been disrupted. This may seem like the acceleration of a [...]

The Capitol Forum: Vol. 8 No. 105: For-Profit Colleges: Republicans Include Generous Provisions to Aid For-Profit Colleges in Draft Bailout Legislation; Higher Ed Advocacy Groups Fight Back

"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently announced that House Democrats would put forward their own legislation to provide coronavirus relief and industry bailout money, but an early Senate Republican version of the bill included [...]

Washington Post: Maryland General Assembly moves to tighten federal aid restrictions on for-profit colleges

Maryland is poised to become the first state to limit the revenue for-profit colleges can receive from enrolling veterans. On Tuesday, the state House of Delegates unanimously passed legislation to close a loophole in the [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Groups Urge Debt Forgiveness for Disabled Borrowers

A coalition of more than 30 higher education, consumer and veterans' groups on Tuesday called on U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to discharge the student loans of about 350,000 disabled borrowers. Under the Higher [...]

NBC News: States urge Betsy DeVos to forgive loans of students with disabilities

Student loan representatives from seven states and Washington, D.C., sent a letter Tuesday to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul asking them to erase the federal loans of more than [...]

USA Today: This college was accredited by a DeVos-sanctioned group. We couldn’t find evidence of students or faculty

"Reagan National University was supposed to be a place of higher learning, but it was unclear how it awarded degrees. By all appearances, at present, it has no students, no faculty and no classrooms. An [...]

Maryland: The Daily Record: Md. lawmakers look to add for-profit college regulations again this year

State lawmakers hope this year to place new regulations on for-profit colleges operating in Maryland, a third straight year of new regulations for an industry that has seen more favorable regulatory actions from the federal [...]

NPR: Teachers Union Lawsuit Claims DeVos ‘Capriciously’ Repealed Borrower Protections

"One of the nation's largest teachers unions sued U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday. The complaint: She repealed a rule meant to protect student loan borrowers from for-profit and career-focused schools that graduate them [...]