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.