Clarkson University President Anthony Collins supports President Obama's "shake-up" for higher education and is confident about how the upstate New York research university will fare in the new scorecards for colleges and universities.
The cost of higher education as measured by private and public tuition has indeed risen at rates higher than inflation, roughly 4% per year for non-profit private tuition. And Obama is rightly focused on the middle class — incomes for upper income brackets have risen faster than the rate of tuition, so that for those groups the cost of tuition as a fraction of household income has actually come down.
Have you ever wondered how higher education is financed in other parts of the world? No matter what country you choose, you will find that the topic of financing higher education is a contentious one. Over the last decade, there has been a worldwide shift of the burden of higher education costs from governments and taxpayers to parents and students. This is much to the chagrin of parents of course.
En la búsqueda de una carrera profesional una puertorriqueña se endeudó para matricularse en el Sanford Brown Institute de Manhattan, en Nueva York, pero un engaño frustró su sueño.
President Obama took a swipe at law schools and for-profit colleges on Friday, the second day of his college bus tour, suggesting that legal education could be just as effective if it took two years rather than three, and assailing proprietary colleges that leave students in debt and ill prepared for a job.
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway said this week his office is in the process of going over documents provided by a for-profit college, in response to a subpoena.
Donald Trump is no amateur when it comes to dispensing tough criticism, but on Saturday, he was on the receiving end of a hard hit when the New York State attorney general's office filed a lawsuit against his eponymous real estate school, The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative -- formerly known as Trump University. As the Donald faces civil litigation and demands for at least $40 million in restitution, the legal actions points another harsh spotlight on the for-profit education industry.
Because the media loves discussing Donald Trump, it wasn't surprising to see heavy press coverage of a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman accusing the unlicensed Trump University of "persistent fraudulent, illegal and deceptive conduct." Trump responded by harshly attacking Schneiderman, whose suit demands that Trump pay back at least $40 million to the 5,000 people who were enticed into paying $10,000 to $35,000 for real estate investment courses "that did not deliver on their promises." Trump University's sad broken promises included telling some students they would get a photo-op with the Donald, when all they got was a picture with a cardboard cutout. But the real fraud was convincing enrollees that the Trump-owned for-profit "university" would get them on the path to a successful career, which apparently didn't happen for many of them.
Rasmussen College, a regionally accredited private college, today announced two initiatives that advance its commitment to making higher education affordable for students. A new AcceleratED Business Management Associate's Degree will be offered at a flat rate of $15,000 and can be completed in as little as 18 months. The Achieve Scholarship will offer new students enrolling in degree programs the possibility of receiving $500 per quarter toward tuition costs if students are continuously enrolled full time. Both are available to students beginning this fall, with a scholarship application deadline of September 29, 2013.
Ashland University, a private institution in Ohio, is joining a small but growing group of colleges that have sharply cut their tuition while also reducing the amount of institutional aid they offer, to come up with a sticker price that’s closer to what students actually pay. That strategy is one of many that smaller institutions are exploring to try to ease concerns about college costs and shore up enrollments.
Benefits have been disbursed to public and private nonprofit schools, as well as to for-profit universities and institutes, which collected more than $639 million by July 2010.
State Rep. Leon Stavrinakis says quality and affordability are the two main goals for South Carolina’s higher-education institutions, and the company poised to buy the Charleston School of Law doesn’t appear to strive to meet either.
Grand Canyon University was bustling with activity on the second day of classes last week, with an on-campus student population now approaching 8,500, new dormitories and an athletic program ready to launch its first year in NCAA Division I as a member of the Western Athletic Conference.
For-profit schools — which include the University of Phoenix, DeVry University and Strayer University — began booming in the 1990s after changes in state and federal regulations made it possible for them to open campuses across the country and online.
The Obama administration resumed a controversial effort Friday to regulate for-profit colleges and certain others that offer career-training programs to help graduates obtain “gainful employment.”
ATI Career Training Center looked like dozens of other private career colleges that dot South Florida’s educational landscape. It offered hope of a new career, a path into prosperity, an escape from poverty.
Now, a group of schools known as "for-profit colleges" have come under fire for lying to students to get them in the door then sending them into the working world with what some call a worthless degree in addition to tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
If the Obama administration gets its way, for-profit colleges will soon face tighter, tougher regulations based on how much debt their graduates carry.
A drop in tuition at nearby private universities has led to increasing enrollment patterns, whereas state-owned universities are hiking tuition prices while experiencing smaller enrollments.
Generous tuition discounts and aggressive recruitment campaigns are netting record freshman enrollments at some private universities in Western Pennsylvania while lower-cost, state-owned universities struggle.
U.S. private colleges and universities largely fall into two categories: those with diverse revenue streams supplemented by robust research, healthcare and fundraising, and those highly dependent on student-generated revenues, according to a new Fitch Ratings report.
A $250 million donation to Centre College won’t happen, and it’s a bit unclear why. College officials and the head of a Bermuda-based trust offered differing accounts Monday of the massive deal’s sudden collapse.
Students at for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean are amassing more debt than their peers at medical schools in the United States, and many of those students quit school early, thereby creating risk for taxpayers, according to an article in Bloomberg Markets magazine that examines trends at the Caribbean institutions. Some of those schools also pay hospitals in the United States to take their students for clinical training, a practice that has drawn the ire of some medical educators.
William Peace University, an 800-student liberal arts college in North Carolina, plans to spend as much as two-thirds of its endowment on a single piece of property.
Gov. Pat Quinn awarded Columbia $4.8 million July 31 to reimburse the college for previously completed construction projects, thus allowing it to move forward with new projects.
According to a study by Affordable Colleges Online, just one percent of the private colleges in the U.S. have a documented million-dollar return on investment (ROI): alumni whose lifetime earnings surpass those of non-degree holders by seven figures. The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) is among that select group, with an estimated $1.62 million return after taking into account tuition and fees. That figure ranks as the third highest in the nation.
The number of American college students has fallen below 20 million for the first time since the late recession. Is this the first wave of the threatened collapse in traditional college attendance that is supposed to drive small private colleges out of business?
Generous tuition discounts and aggressive recruitment campaigns are netting record freshman enrollments at some private universities in Western Pennsylvania while lower-cost, state-owned universities struggle.
A new survey of 523 college presidents has been completed by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed, and the findings are interesting. All the questions and answers from the Gallup/Inside Higher Ed Presidents' Panel can be viewed here, but one fascinating takeaway is that there are big differences in college presidents’ perception of the board that depend on whether the institution is public or private:
Founded in 1995, Corinthian is one of the world's largest for-profit college companies, with an enrollment of about 81,000 students at 111 schools in 25 states and Canada. Operating under the names Everest, Heald and WyoTech, it offers job-training programs as well as associate's, bachelor's and master's degrees.
From my story today: “As the Education Department gathers a panel to rewrite controversial for-profit college regulations, the motto might as well be 'the more things change, the more they stay the same.'
For-profit colleges enjoy the fruits of a business model to die for. It's not a new model. In fact, it's very similar to the one employed by subprime mortgage purveyors Washington Mutual and Countrywide Financial that helped put the entire global financial system at risk, pitching the U.S. into the worst financial panic since the Depression. As we confront a national student loan debt now over $1 trillion and counting, that holds back their "normal" investment in first-time housing, cars and the like, it would be wise to look closely at those similarities and see what we can do about them before its too late (again).
Some students in the Inland Empire have complained in recent years that the education and degrees they receive from some area for-profit colleges leave them unemployable in their fields of interest and facing mounds of student loan debt.
A little more than a week after the state of New York sued Donald Trump for $40 million, claiming his Trump University doesn't give students much benefit, the feds are taking a harder look at all for-profit career education institutions.
For-profit colleges will join talks today in Washington as they try to soften an Education Department proposal that sets limits on student debt levels.
The Bay Area's for-profit colleges soak up millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded student grants and loans and charge students high tuition, yet many have low graduation rates or high rates of student loan defaults, an analysis of U.S. Department of Education data reveals.
With students enjoying their first weeks on campus and President Obama's call to bring more accountability to colleges still reverberating, for-profit schools are gearing up for what could be another round of battles over government efforts to tighten regulation of their operations.
For-profit colleges will join talks today in Washington as they try to soften an Education Department proposal that sets limits on student debt levels.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin called for an examination of for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean that have access to federal student loans yet may be subject to standards below those set for medical students in the U.S.
Real-estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump is no stranger to the spotlight — but he can’t be reveling in the attention he’s receiving now. On August 24, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, a for-profit school run by Trump, claiming that it tricked students into paying thousands of dollars for courses that failed to provide promised instruction on real-estate business techniques. If these allegations are true, it’s a warning that at least some of what purports to be nontraditional for-profit education can be an old-fashioned rip-off.
The regulation of for-profit higher education is a hot topic once again, thanks in part to a second round of negotiations over gainful employment rules, which begin today,
In an effort to boost enrollment, Sierra Nevada College offered a 50 percent tuition discount to incoming freshmen and transfer students for the current fall semester.
Last week the U.S. Census reported college enrollment declined for the first time in six years in the fall of 2012. That, in turn, threatens higher education revenue, said Moody's Investors Service in a special report on Monday.
Tuition increases are constantly in the news these days. Private colleges have become incredibly expensive (as I know personally, with a daughter currently attending one). Public colleges also have been raising tuition sharply in many cases, mostly to offset cuts in the funds they receive from state budgets. Yet, by the standards of the economic marketplace most colleges are still underpriced.
That’s the average price of tuition, room and board at Minnesota’s private colleges and universities this year, according to the Minnesota Private College Council.
Kaplan has become the latest international educator to open operations in Iraqi Kurdistan. Starting next month, it will offer university language preparation programmes through a partnership with Koya University in the capital Erbil to 100 students.
The push is part of a broad new strategy that also seeks to enhance diversity among the ranks of postdoctoral students, faculty, and senior administrators.
Agiliance®, Inc., the leading independent provider of Integrated Risk Management solutions for Governance and Security programs, today announced that one of the nation’s top private universities has deployed Agiliance RiskVision™ to manage its governance and security risk processes. The university is using Agiliance’s software platform to manage all risk artifacts in a centralized and automated fashion, which allows the institution’s compliance and risk services team to take a pro-active rather than reactive approach to security management.
The U.S. still dominates QS’ leaderboard with 11 institutions cracking the top 20. However, all 11 are private universities. The highest-ranked public school is the University of Michigan at No. 22. Researchers point to budget cuts.
Some years ago, there was a survey conducted by a couple of national nonprofit leadership organizations to ascertain the “core values of the nonprofit sector.” How do the ever-rising salaries of private university presidents—while faculty salaries stagnate and tuition costs to students skyrocket—reflect the core values of the nonprofit sector? Jaeah Lee and Maggie Severns writing for Mother Jones note that a number of private universities—and, to be fair, public universities as well—are providing pay and perks to university presidents that are kind of mind-boggling.
Hawai‘i Pacific University climbed 10 places in the top Regional Universities in the West in U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges 2014,” released today. That comes on the heels of a six-place jump in last year’s ranking, school officials noted.
Two universities and a college professor were chosen this year to share in the 2013 Academic Affairs Awards presented by The Washington Center. Lubbock Christian University is among those honored and will be presented with the Private University of the Year Award during The Washington Center's annual awards luncheon in Washington, D.C. at the National Press Club on Oct. 7, 2013.
Already, "precipitous enrollment declines for fall 2013" have hurt the credit quality of two private colleges—Loyola University in Louisiana and Central College in Iowa—and a public one, St. Mary's College in Maryland.
Enrollment at four-year public and private universities in Northeast Ohio is holding steady despite declines in the number of high school graduates in the Midwest and concerns over rising tuition costs and student debt.
Add one more strain to the finances of US universities: a decline in enrolment. Last week the US Census reported that college enrolment declined for the first time in six years in the autumn of 2012. That, in turn, threatens higher education revenue, said Moody's Investors Service, reports Reuters.
A spate of small private liberal arts colleges are dramatically slashing their sticker prices in an effort to, they say, tell the truth about the real cost of college, help families and attract new students.
Our next presentation are from the folks at Apollo Group, APOL is the ticker. We have got two representatives from the company here; up here I have got Greg Cappelli who is the CEO of Apollo Group. In the audience, we've got Brian Swartz, who is the CFO, Senior Vice President, and we've got other members of the team as well.
By every available indication, Corinthian Colleges Inc., one of the country's largest chains of for-profit colleges, stands out as an institution whose students face especially long odds of success.
Colleges and universities should be accountable to the public for public money they receive. Obama is especially annoyed with expensive for-profit colleges that receive federal student aid dollars but whose students incur large debts and then drop out, or who graduate but cannot find good paying jobs. Who can blame him?
Last month, USA Today reported that House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., who has received generous campaign contributions from for-profit colleges, is pushing legislation that would protect the industry from losing federal aid, which accounts for much of their revenue.
Trustees at two Roman Catholic colleges in Western New York want to look at each other’s books in what may be the first step toward a new and expansive partnership, if not necessarily a merger.
For the third year in a row, the California Institute of Technology has retained the No. 1 spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Harvard University and the University of Oxford tied for second place, while Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rounded out the top five.
Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human-rights activist who had a public fight with New York University this past summer that raised questions about the influence of China on American higher education, has found a new home in academe. Mr. Chen will be a visiting fellow here at Catholic University of America, and will also be affiliated with a conservative think tank and a human-rights group started by a Democratic congressman.
A new tool released this week by Wellesley College promises to be a game-changer in the higher education marketplace by bringing clarity to the college-shopping process. It also has the potential to attract more people to college.
In an April Globe Magazine story, education writer Jon Marcus sounded an alarm for this area’s small private colleges: Endowments were suffering, admissions were down, and plenty of families were beginning to wonder what their hefty tuition payments got them. “There’s little doubt in my mind,” said one consultant, “that a number of small tuition-dependent private colleges will go out of business in the next 10 years.”
Adrian College, a small, private school in Michigan, says it will make all or part of a student's loan payment until the individual makes more than $37,000 a year.
Harvard men’s basketball has seen a rise in its on the court success. The past two seasons, the Crimson has qualified for the NCAA tournament, and in March upset No. 3 seed New Mexico in the second round. Harvard is the favorite to win the Ivy League again, returning multiple starters in addition to Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry rejoining the team.
Freshman enrollment was a mixed bag this fall at private colleges and universities in West Michigan, with some schools, such as Calvin College, seeing a jump in students while others were down slightly.
In recent weeks, President Obama has weighed in on the important subject of higher education. Much of the conversation has focused on the cost of a college education and the very real challenges of student debt looming over more and more young Americans. As this conversation continues, we must also seriously discuss expectations related to student learning and the value of a college education.
St. Bonaventure University (Olean, NY), the nation’s first Franciscan university, has become the 21st New York independent college and 76th Catholic college to join the SAGE Scholars Private College & University Enrollment Consortium.
Today, Peirce College, Philadelphia’s leading private, non-profit, four-year accredited institution for working adult learners, announced their Paralegal Studies degree program has received full reapproval from the American Bar Association. With this news, Peirce College remains the only institution to offer an ABA-approved Paralegal Studies bachelor's degree program in Philadelphia.
Cornell University, Princeton University and Dartmouth College are among 11 private schools that have joined the Say Yes to Education program best known for providing high school students a tuition-free path to college.
Las universidades de Cornell, Princeton y Dartmouth están entre las 11 instituciones privadas que se ha unido a la iniciativa 'Say Yes to Education' (Di Sí a la educación) que ofrece a estudiantes de secundaria un camino para cursar educación superior sin pagar matriculas.
For-profit college ads promise "outstanding job placement" and "exciting careers," but some who end up enrolling -- often immigrants and low-income students -- say they leave with little more than debt.
Unable to access information through the call centers, many veterans register on websites that sell their information to for-profit institutions. Not only are there reports of unscrupulous recruiting tactics by these for-profit schools, but the schools are motivated to recruit veterans for revenue purposes.
For those of you who are not familiar with Corinthian Colleges (COCO), it's a for-profit company that provides post-secondary education services. It's most well known brand is Everest Colleges, but it has other institutions such as WyoTech and Heald College.
On the first day of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities annual convention, a storm worked its way towards the convention center. More than a thousand people milled inside Rosen Shingle Creek, one of the golf resort/convention centers that are endemic to central Florida. The attendees had come for the annual congress of for-profit colleges, hosted by the sector’s trade association and central lobbyist. Its theme: “Opportunity for all.”
On Thursday, a U.S. Senate committee began debating how your tax dollars are spent funding for-profit colleges. In a series of investigations over the past year, the I-Team has exposed how many for-profit colleges have been accused of unethical behavior, including providing substandard education and predatory recruiting practices.
At Public Advocates, Studley has been a strong voice for low-income and underrepresented Americans, and the organization has been part of a coalition of consumer groups that has criticized for-profit higher education.
Harvard University will not divest of its endowment holdings in the fossil fuel industry, said a statement issued Thursday by Drew Faust, the president. She wrote that she and board members did not consider such a move to be "warranted or wise."
New York University is willing to let some graduate students vote on whether to form a union, marking a possible return to the collective-bargaining rights they once held. It's a pitch the university made months ago and reiterated to union organizers on Friday.
Harvard University announced Saturday that it has launched a campaign to raise $6.5 billion by 2018 -- a record goal for higher education -- and plans to use the money to expand the campus in Allston, enhance engineering programs, and renovate aging undergraduate houses.
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Howard University’s credit rating Tuesday, citing a loss of patient revenue and volume at its hospital, cuts in federal funding and other challenges facing the historically black university.
AZ Business Leaders, a leading publication of Arizona's business community, today recognized Dr. Bill Pepicello as a top Arizona education executive for his distinguished 20-year track record of leadership at University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private university. Dr. Pepicello recently informed the University's board of trustees of his intention to retire as president once a successor has been named.
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