The House of Representatives has unanimously given its final approval to legislation that would allow an elite group of private colleges to discuss their financial-aid policies with one another...
Despite efforts to stave off financial troubles, New Hampshire's Notre Dame College will close at the end of the academic year, a victim of falling enrollment. The Board of Trustees of the Roman...
All sectors of higher education -- and especially private colleges -- will face economic hardships in the next year and a half, says a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
Daniel Fischel has resigned as dean of the University of Chicago law school in the midst of a controversy over his romantic relationship with an associate dean.
A federal appeals court on Monday reinstated a federal False Claims Act lawsuit brought against ITT Educational Services, Inc. by a former enrollment official. A federal judge in Indiana dismissed the suit against the for-profit higher education provider last year, saying the court did not have jurisdiction because the plaintiffs in the case were not the original source of the allegations against the company, as is required under the false claims law. The court also slapped the plaintiffs with nearly $400,000 in fines for having brought, in the judge's words, a "frivolous" lawsuit.
The second try was the trick for Ashford University, which earned its regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges after being rejected one year ago.
Apollo Group (APOL), the for-profit education stock behind the University of Phoenix, made waves yesterday by announcing that Phoenix’s accreditation was reaffirmed through the 2022–23 academic year.
The owner of the US’ biggest for-profit university fears it could face reputational and financial damage from an accreditation dispute that is already being used by a British union to attack the UK’s leading for- profit college.
After the market closed Monday Apollo group released news that its University of Phoenix's accreditation had been "reaffirmed" for 10 years by the Higher Learning Commission, which grants accreditation to colleges.
The Thunderbird School of Global Management’s new joint venture with for-profit Laureate Education Inc. provides a $13 million cash investment to the Glendale business school and includes a $52 million sale-leaseback deal for its campus, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Chancellor University, a for-profit college based in Seven Hills, Ohio, that once faced extinction when it was known as the nonprofit Myers University, announced on Monday that it would close, according to The Plain Dealer of Cleveland.
If you want to be a White House intern, it helps to go to private school, preferably Ivy League, or have done something to help President Obama get re-elected.
Marc Bousquet, who blogs for The Chronicle of Higher Education, worries in his latest post that the harsh federal spotlight currently illuminating the excesses of for-profit colleges is missing similar problems at nonprofit institutions.
Especially alarming were the numbers for two-year and for-profit colleges, with 40 percent of students who borrowed loans to attend for-profit institutions defaulting since 1995. This data comes just when for-profit colleges are being subjected to federal scrutiny in part because of the amount of federal financial aid they draw and the amount they spend on expenses other than teaching. “While for-profits educate less than 10 percent of students, those colleges’ students received close to a quarter of Pell Grant and federal-student-loan dollars in 2008,” according to the Chronicle article.
Will any of the Capital Region's private institutions of higher learning get a share of 3 million square feet of tax-free space created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's START-UP NY initiative?
Berea College was once again America's least expensive private college or university in the 2011-2012 academic year, according to U.S. Department of Education.
For many private colleges in the Northeast at least, changing demographics have compelled them to focus on new groups of potential students to starve off decline. First Generation Students (FGS) seem to many of these college's as magic bullets of sorts. If only they could attract FGS in enough numbers, keep them enrolled, maybe their financial woes would be solved. Now, many schools seek these students out for noble causes, for all the right reasons, and try to serve them well. But, still research shows that retaining these students is still a challenge.
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit charging that TIAA-CREF wrongfully retained investment income from the accounts of instructors at private colleges and universities around the country.
Felix Salmon, in his opinion piece, “Universities shouldn’t be tax exempt,” buries Cooper Union for the $18 million of “tax equivalency payments” it receives annually from a small square of land it owns underneath the iconic Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan—money, Salmon says, that “would normally flow to New York City in the form of property taxes, but instead gets diverted to Cooper Union for its own uses.”
Un nuevo reporte de la agencia de noticias Reuters confirma lo que muchos estudiantes universitarios ya sabían y que parece difícil de creer: Los de las universidades públicas se están graduando con más deudas que los de las privadas.
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business will move its Asia Executive M.B.A. program from Singapore to Hong Kong, making it the latest institution to move a program away from the city-state after setting down roots there. The Singapore campus, which opened in 2000, will stop accepting executive M.B.A. candidates, though the university said in its announcement that it was exploring space options for holding some activities in Singapore after the program moves.
Last week, Gov. Bill Haslam and Bob Mendenhall, president of Western Governors University, officially launched a new higher-education choice for Tennesseans: WGU Tennessee.
Jennifer Kerr took a mighty leap of faith when she sued a for-profit college for misrepresenting what kind of degree she’d be earning and its value to her future. Tucked into her contract with Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. was a provision that, should she sue and lose, Kerr would be responsible for Vatterott’s legal costs.
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has reaffirmed accreditation for the University of Phoenix for 10 years, but has placed the Phoenix-based for-profit university, which operates in Colorado, on "notice" status for the next two years.
Despite Chancellor University's ongoing woes, particularly concerning its accreditation, the school's president, Bob Daugherty, had insisted in recent years that the institution formerly known as Myers University was poised to emerge as a leader in online business education.
A joint degree run by New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), awarding a master of laws degree from both universities, had benefited just nine Singaporeans since the one-year postgraduate degree was launched in 2007, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang revealed last week.
Private College Week runs July 29 through Aug. 1. The program invites all rising high school juniors and seniors to visit one of 24 private colleges across Virginia.
When Kelsey Hunt was mulling where to go to college, she considered a half a dozen institutions before deciding to attend Spring Arbor University when she becomes a freshman this fall.
Thank you for encouraging families to use 529 plans in planning and saving for college. The fact that you write about them every couple of years is terrific. I wanted to be sure you were aware of our unique 529 plan, Private College 529.
The costs of higher education are growing much faster than inflation. The average price for tuition, fees, room and board at a private institution averages nearly $24,000, or almost half of what the average family brings in each year.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on Friday, reviewing allegations that the private liberal arts school has failed at handling sexual misconduct on campus and retaliated against sexual assault survivors.
The debate over for-profit higher education is heating up again. And while much of the criticism revived here by Democratic politicians is unlikely to lead to policy changes, at least some action appears likely in two areas in coming months.
Faculty salaries at public universities are failing to keep pace with private colleges and industry, surveys show — and that reflects South Dakota’s reality, too, though not necessarily the dire consequences.
A subsidiary of Barnes & Noble has been chosen to run Hawaii Pacific University’s bookstores in Downtown Honolulu and at its Hawaii Loa campus in Windward Oahu, the state’s largest private university said Tuesday.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has ordered the unaccredited University of Northern Virginia to shut down for failing to achieve candidacy with an accreditor recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
As part of its “Decision Makers 2013″ project, The National Journal selected 250 top Obama-administration officials and identified the colleges and universities where they received their undergraduate and graduate degrees. In that sample, it found that graduate degrees from the University of Oxford were more common than graduate degrees from any American public university. Harvard University was the top-ranked institution in both the graduate and undergraduate categories. Over all, four out of 10 officials in the group earned an undergraduate or graduate degree from an Ivy League institution.
California asked a court on Wednesday to order Bridgepoint Education to turn over hundreds of thousands of records as the state investigates complaints of false advertising at for-profit colleges.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Holly Petraeus goes on the attack, saying a federal rule encourages for-profit colleges to exploit veterans. Federal aid can make up no more than 90 percent of a for-profit college's revenue. But veterans' benefits don't count. In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Petraeus will say the rule gives "some for-profit colleges an incentive to see servicemembers as nothing more than dollar signs in uniform and to use some very unscrupulous marketing techniques.”
House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline, who saw a dramatic upsurge in campaign contributions from for-profit colleges in recent months, is pushing legislation that would help the industry preserve its access to federal student loans.
Ann Arbor's University of Phoenix campus is in the process of shuttering and is not accepting new students, although the closing will likely take at least a year, according to a school official.
It's a good time to be an investor in the NASDAQ-traded company with the ticker symbol LOPE. As of Friday its share price had risen more than 48 percent this calendar year, and more than 80 percent over the past 12 months. In its first quarter earnings call held May 7, a Deutsche Bank analyst asked the company's CEO how a recent initiative might affect its marketing strategy going forward.
It sure seems ironic that the Pac-12 Conference and Arizona State President Michael Crow are targeting Grand Canyon University’s move to NCAA Division I status.
The shuttering of Ivy Bridge College could dump cold water on the online aspirations of some colleges, particularly ones that prefer to play it safe with their regional accreditor.
President Obama announced on Wednesday his nomination of France A. Córdova, a former president of Purdue University, to serve as the new director of the National Science Foundation.
The Thunderbird School of Global Management, based in Arizona, announced in March its pending partnership with Laureate Education Inc. Several board members have since resigned, and alumni are protesting the alliance.
Detroit's bankruptcy filing last week and the decades of decline that preceded it have been a predictable political and historical Rorschach test. The right blames the city's demise on moral failures and weak character -- the banana-republic-caliber corruption and fiscal fecklessness of its politicians, the greed of its unions, the spinelessness of automobile executives who gave into them. To the left -- more inclined to see history as the product of "great forces" than "great men" (or terrible ones) -- the Motor City was swamped by powerful tides: racism, sprawl, and unbridled capitalism.
Career Education Corp. has begun one of higher education’s broadest experiments with adaptive learning. Institutions in the for-profit chain have powered more than 300 online course sections with the emerging technology, and enrollments in those courses have topped 11,000 students.
After dismissing claims that Kaplan University defrauded the government, a federal judge expedited briefing for Kaplan's accuser to abate that final judgment.
Strong and growing support from Arizonans helped push revenue sharply higher for Grand Canyon University’s parent company during the second quarter, the company reported Tuesday.
Forty-four percent of for-profit private institutions have higher rates of students who default on loans than students who actually graduate college, a new report shows.
When FRONTLINE viewers last saw Sgt. Chris Pantzke, he was struggling to deal with the fallout from signing up for courses at a for-profit college that he couldn’t complete.
The federal government should have no role in trying to make college affordable, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said, backing legislation that would prevent the Obama administration from enforcing new rules on for-profit colleges.
The final result is a toss-up in a study comparing how for-profit and nonprofit colleges stack up in job market returns of their certificates and associate degrees. That finding is a big shift from the unflattering conclusion about for-profits reached in an earlier version of the paper.
An improving job market and a smaller population of traditional college-aged people have resulted in the first significant drop in college enrollment since the 1990s.
Given the pathetic record of so many for-profit colleges, one might think that members of Congress would agree that the industry needs more oversight – especially since those schools eat up about one-fifth of the available federal student aid.
Names of the stakeholders chosen to rewrite the controversial “gainful employment” regulation beginning in September are starting to slip out. Some are prominent critics of the sector, indicating the Obama administration isn’t backing off from tightening regulations on vocational programs despite a court challenge to its last attempt.
Over the past ten years, I have watched a smattering of “for profit colleges” do just that – make money. Sadly, these “for profit” entities are raking in so much money while offering some of the worst educational outcomes to America’s most vulnerable students.
A for-profit college in Richmond, Va., has agreed to pay $5 million in a class-action settlement filed by eight former students who said the training they received was a sham.
Private education stocks climbed on Thursday, led by share of Apollo Group Inc. (NYSE: APOL). DeVry, Inc. (NYSE: DV) ITT Educational Services Inc. (NYSE: ESI) and Corinthian Colleges Inc. (NYSE: COCO) also moved higher.
The U.S. Justice Department has ended its investigation into talks among the leaders of some private colleges about ways to encourage institutions to spend more on need-based aid and less on non-need-based aid.
Aurora University, North Central College and dozens of other private universities across Illinois found out Wednesday that they were receiving millions in state aid under a capital construction program that is helping private colleges and universities pay for campus upgrades and improvements.
The U.S. Education Department has named negotiators to a panel that will rewrite its controversial "gainful employment" rule, and for-profit colleges are feeling outnumbered.
Tucked into a defense-spending bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday are a pair of provisions that would bar colleges from...
On the same day two of the state’s largest universities were coming together, tiny Dover Business College was merging with Berkeley College in a marriage of two of New Jersey’s for-profit schools.
On the night of Aug. 5, Andrew Rosen, the chief executive officer of Kaplan Inc., sent a memo to employees about the blockbuster news that their parent company, Washington Post Co., was selling its flagship newspaper.
Jennifer Kerr took a mighty leap of faith when she sued a for-profit college for misrep resenting what kind of degree she'd be earning and its value to her future. Her con tract with Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. had a provision that, should she sue and lose, Kerr would be responsible for Vatterott's legal costs.
Students served by for-profit colleges have been termed the “neediest” by USA Today. Or, as Dr. Tim Gramling explained in his SAGE Open article on the topic, “for-profits largely serve adult students who are not recent high school graduates but who still need a college degree.”
A federal panel will tackle one of most controversial college regulations in Education Department history next month. The rule was meant to ensure that graduates of for-profit colleges are getting jobs and repaying their loans, but it was struck down last summer after a court challenge — so the department is going back to the drawing board.
Altius Education, a for-profit company that runs Ivy Bridge College, announced late Thursday that Tiffin University, a nonprofit institution in Ohio, has been ordered by its accreditor to stop offering associate degrees through Ivy Bridge. Those degrees have been covered by Tiffin's accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission, which according to Altius said that the Ivy Bridge programs must end by October 20.
Kaplan Inc. has been both a savior and a sore spot for The Washington Post over the past decade. The sale of the newspaper to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos leaves the for-profit education company behind, its future uncertain.
Even as the Washington Post saw its circulation diminish and its advertising revenues evaporate in recent years, the paper's parent company could draw on a conspicuous center of growth -- a chain of for-profit colleges known collectively as Kaplan Higher Education.
This fall Grand Canyon University will have 8,500 students on its Phoenix area campus, and another 47,000 enrolled in on-line courses. It describes itself as a Christian university with a Christian Viewpoint. GCU operates as a for-profit institution without state assistance or subsidy. Although it has no football team, it has 22 teams competing in men's and women's sports. For the past 10 years GCU has competed at the Division II level, and will now move to Division I as it becomes a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
Kaplan’s fortunes are looking up. The education company no longer has to pick up the slack for The Washington Post, the venerable newspaper and loss leader that Kaplan’s corporate owner, the Washington Post Co., just sold off.
Yet Jay Bilas — former “student-athlete” and current ESPN broadcaster — called out the NCAA, just like he did Crow’s battle against for-profit universities like Grand Canyon University. Bilas went to the NCAA’s official website, typed in the surnames of various college stars and found he could buy their replica jerseys for as much as $179.95.
John Robinson, a local attorney and president of the Charleston School of Law Alumni Board, fondly remembers the closeness he enjoyed with faculty and fellow students as a member of the private law school's inaugural class of '07. With almost all of the courses being taught in a building on King Street, the students jokingly referred to the law school as a "one-room schoolhouse."
A federal appeals court has rejected a South Korean university’s lawsuit that had accused Yale University of acting negligently when it mistakenly confirmed that an art-history professor had earned a doctorate at the Ivy League institution.
Career Education Corporation will pay more than $10-million in a settlement with the State of New York to resolve an investigation into its misrepresentation of data about the job placements of its graduates.
The presidents of three Springfield-based colleges issued a joint statement on Tuesday, saying they will object to any "duplication of programs" if the University of Massachusetts locates a satellite campus in the city's downtown as proposed.
For-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix, whose tuition generally falls between state institutions and private not-for-profit universities, were the first to offer large online degree programs. But for-profit enrollment has declined because of the recession, increased government scrutiny and Congressional hearings finding that their students had low graduation rates and high loan default rates. And with so many traditional institutions now offering online degrees, the for-profit colleges may have a tougher time attracting students.
Woodbury-based Globe University must pay a former dean almost $400,000 in damages, a jury in her Washington County District Court whistleblower trial found Thursday.
Heitkamp, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, said she is also concerned about the high percentage of student debt that is privately financed, and that about 47 percent of defaults on student loans come from students of for-profit institutions
A bill that would open the door to for-profit companies -- including unaccredited “fly-by-night” ones -- to offer courses in the name of a state’s colleges and universities is fraught with danger. A bill that would require a state’s colleges and universities to outsource their core educational function is truly misguided, however well-intentioned the idea may have been.
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to take out student loans than those who attend any other type of institution, according to new data released Monday by the Department of Education.
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