Desde finales de los años ochenta1 hemos presenciado la rápida expansión del sector privado en la educación superior. La educación superior privada ha experimentado un crecimiento de más del doble en lo que va del siglo XXI –concentrando actualmente al 33% de la matrícula de educación superior total del país–. De hecho, siete de cada 10 instituciones de educación superior en México pertenecen al sector privado. Pero uno de los fenómenos más importantes de los últimos 15 años de la oferta privada es el relacionado con la nueva tendencia de regionalización y dispersión territorial de la oferta educativa, caracterizada por rebasar los límites de las ciudades y expandirse hacia las zonas no metropolitanas de los estados.
En el caso de universidades, una de las garantías que da la norma es que la institución certificada debe contar con procesos claros, estandarizados y con responsables definidos para todos los trámites y servicios que ofrece. Eso evitaría problemas como las decisiones arbitrarias, la negación de servicios y temas similares que figuran entre las denuncias recibidas por el Consejo Nacional de Enseñanza Superior Universitaria Privada (Conesup) entre 2017 y 2019 (véase gráfico “Quejas en educación superior”).
The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that Hope College police officers can be deputized by the local sheriff's department and have the authority to enforce the law both on and off the campus.
Price fixing by competitors has been illegal for almost 100 years. Consequently, college administrators are ignoring the long-standing rules of competition when they protest that any collusion the...
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Maryland could not exclude Columbia Union College, a Seventh-day Adventist institution of 1,100 students, from a program that distributes state funds to private...
A vote by faculty members to unionize at a small college in Montana may be a big breakthrough in efforts to organize professors at private institutions. It may also signal a shift in philosophy...
A group of private colleges is negotiating a possible settlement with the Justice Department to avoid charges of violating antitrust laws in the way they award financial aid...
In the latest example of an apparent trend of private companies buying out for-profit colleges, Concorde Career Colleges Inc. announced on Wednesday that it would be acquired by an affiliate...
The U.S. Education Corporation, a company formed by two private investment groups in 2002 with the goal of acquiring and operating for-profit colleges, has bought a 3,800-student college...
The House of Representatives last week approved a plan to allow the Student Loan Marketing Association to become a private business. The association, known as Sallie Mae...
Another private-equity investor is taking a high-profile stake in the higher-education industry. Sterling Capital Partners announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the for-profit Florida Coastal...
Proposed regulations to carry out a law that governs most federally financed agriculture programs unfairly favor public colleges and universities, the American Council on Education said...
Some 35 percent of first-time, full-time college students who plan to earn a bachelor's degree reach their goal within four years, and 56 percent achieve it within six years, according to a report...
A group representing people who buy, sell, rate, and insure bonds is asking private colleges to provide more timely, thorough, and consistent data about their finances and operations.
Economic and racial diversity is declining among students at 22 private colleges in California, according to a report released today by Claremont Graduate University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The report, “Using Multiple Lenses: An Examination of the Economic and Racial/Ethnic Diversity of College Students,” examined changes from 2000 to 2004 in the composition of students at the colleges, which are participating in a project designed to increase access to and success in college among students from low-income families and minority groups that are underrepresented in higher education.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has published a preliminary state-by-state list of maximum in-state tuition and fees, a tally that serves as an early indicator of how much the new GI Bill may cost the federal government. The numbers contain some surprises and bode well for both veterans and the private colleges they may wish to attend.
Boston Belmont University believes in the personal touch. Before freshmen start classes this fall, the Christian institution in Nashville will have had multiple personal contacts with the students...
Had a recent decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court gone the other way, the business practices of private colleges and universities would have been altered dramatically.