Lest anyone doubt that Asia holds promise for American higher-education companies, the chief executive of Laureate Education, who just engineered a $3.8-billion private-equity buyout of the company...
For-profit, degree-granting institutions have grown at a significantly faster rate than their nonprofit counterparts, according to a report released in July by the Education Commission of the State...
Students at Harvard University ended a 20-day sit-in this month with a promise by the university to form a committee. Dozens of members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over an...
New York University and the union that represents teaching assistants there recently reached a contract settlement, the first ever for TA's at a private university.
Clark Atlanta University's former general counsel has turned the tables on his old employer, filing a $1-million wrongful-termination lawsuit against the private institution.
Four thousand part-time professors at New York University will get a chance to vote in May on whether they should form what would be the largest adjunct-only union in the nation.
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.
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