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.
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