On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott's offices sent out a news release that declared, "Gov. Scott Announces Anthem Education Expansion in Fort Lauderdale, 70 New Jobs."
The for-profit education industry is becoming a contrarian hotbed after the Department of Education's initial round of rule-making for the industry was not as strict as many investors had anticipated. However, the companies' reliance on Title IV funding is sure to sink them in the long run.
But in Augusta, it’s the for-profit private schools that are raking in taxpayer dollars, charging a tuition that in some cases is five times higher than the area’s larger public universities and colleges.
Small cap for-profit education stock Career Education Corp. (CECO) has one big advantage over both public and private schools plus it may have made a key reversal on the charts.
The biggest drops occurred among adult learners attending for-profit colleges and public community colleges, which are most likely to enroll students in vocation-oriented classes tied to the local job market. Enrollments at those institutions fell 8.7% and 3.6% respectively.
It is high school graduation season. Many of the new grads are among the 1 million people who will walk into a so-called "for-profit school" like Sanford Brown. As NewsChannel 5 I-Team reporter Farrah Fazal discovered, they may walk out with a piece of paper that is worthless.
The bill repeals the “adverse impact” law, which gives for-profit colleges the ability to prevent community colleges from offering courses that are too similar to their own offerings.
Beginning in the 1970s, Apollo Group, Inc. founder, John Sperling, pioneered an unprecedented growth of the for-profit education industry in the United States, from a sleepy group of privately owned trade schools, to today's more behemoth publicly traded operators.
Alumni of the Thunderbird School of Global Management are protesting plans for the nonprofit business school to create a joint venture with for-profit Laureate Education.
Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, urged the Department of Education today to strengthen oversight of for-profit colleges at a field hearing held in San Francisco by the federal agency to explore topics for future rulemaking.
The U.S. Department of Education is now engaged in a series of public hearings on higher education issues, including reforms to curb the abuses of predatory for-profit colleges. It is also accepting written comments from the public.
The biggest drops occurred among adult learners attending for-profit colleges and public community colleges, which are most likely to enroll students in vocation-oriented classes tied to the local job market. Enrollments at those institutions fell 8.7 percent and 3.6 percent respectively.
Southern New Hampshire University is probably the fastest-growing nonprofit institution in the country, driven by the expansion of our longstanding online program. When it comes to large-scale online programs, for-profit colleges dominate the list, which includes only a handful of national nonprofit players.
At the beginning of the Obama Administration, I led the U.S. Department of Education's efforts to protect consumers from predatory practices by colleges. The for-profit companies that operate colleges in particular took umbrage and have been fighting in court and in Congress ever since.
Estacio began 2013 with a new record for student enrollment. There were 117,000 more new on-campus and distance learning college students matriculated in the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 23% compared to the same period last year. With this, Estacio ended the matriculation period for 1Q13 with a total student base of 334,200 undergraduate and graduate students, 19.9% above what was recorded for the same quarter in 2012, of whom 270,500 were matriculated for on-campus programs, and 63,700 in distance learning programs. Not including acquisitions made in 2012, the student base grew organically by 16.8%.