Higher Education News

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 [...]

Chronicle of Higher Education: Purdue Global Has Had a Rocky Start. Is It Growing Pains or a Sign of Trouble?

"A $43-million loss last year was due in part to marketing costs. And the institution expects to turn a profit this year." Read the full story by the Chronicle of Higher Education, "Purdue Global Has [...]

Education Dive: ACICS no longer seeking recognition from key oversight group

"The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and School (ACICS), a troubled national accreditor that had its federal status revoked under the Obama administration, is no longer seeking recognition from the main private association that vets [...]

LA Times: For-profit film school turned their Hollywood dreams into student debt nightmares

"Only two months into pursuing his dream to be a sound engineer, David Gross knew he’d made a mistake. The single father in 2013 signed up at a for-profit college in Burbank that convinced him [...]