Singapore’s first US-style liberal arts college in collaboration with Yale University, set up at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has selected its first cohort of 157 students to start in August – after sifting through 11,400 applications from over 130 countries – the college announced last week.
Mitch Daniels is agnostic on the various delivery modes of higher education or the tax status of colleges offering them, as long as students are getting a quality education at an appropriate price.
Local colleges and universities are hiking tuition costs by an average of 3 to 4 percent for next year, with some school officials calling the increases among the lowest in recent history.
When Danielle Powell signed a statement agreeing to follow the rules outlined in the student handbook at Grace University, a small Bible college in Omaha, she had never dated a woman and had no particular plans to do so. As such, the prohibition on “sexually immoral behavior” including "homosexual acts" did not seem like an issue.
American Civil Liberties Union said it is suing the state of New Jersey over two grants to private colleges that exist solely to train rabbis and priests.
The Obama administration has resumed efforts to rein in abuses by for-profit colleges that leave students deep in debt and unable to find decent jobs, renewing a 2-year-old battle over regulations that has produced little more than bitterness and litigation.
A bill critics said would give private colleges carte blanche to build as they please without local oversight was held up by a state Assembly committee on Monday.
Apollo Group Inc., owner of the University of Phoenix and the biggest U.S. for-profit college, said net income in the fiscal third quarter slid 40 percent as new enrollment tumbled.
Nonprofit colleges in the United States rarely "go out of business" both because demand for higher education services has been robust and because it's hard for nonprofits to go out of business. But St. Paul's College, a small historically black school in Virginia, is closing its doors this month and Moody's says it won't be the last to go.
Two bills that would exempt private colleges and universities from local zoning and planning requirements were tabled by the New Jersey State Assembly Budget Committee on Tuesday, eliciting a collective sigh of relief from concerned officials in Princeton.
The main trade association of for-profit colleges, APSCU, seems to exist for the purpose of protecting the worst, most abusive, most predatory conduct by its member companies. Why else would the association, once again last week, attack the U.S. Department of Education for seeking to implement a law that simply requires career colleges that receive federal aid to actually train students to earn a living? Why else would it send its CEO to offer wholly incredible comments before a Senate committee? And what was General Wesley Clark doing speaking at APSCU's annual convention?
American Commercial Colleges Inc. has agreed to pay the United States at least $1-million over the next five years to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the government, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday.
Developers seeking city financing for projects that include for-profit colleges will face new standards under a proposal recommended for approval Tuesday by the Milwaukee Common Council's Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee.
The latest enrollment figures from for-profit colleges suggest that damning publicity over their business practices, as well as tighter government regulations that followed it, has done deep and long-lasting damage to the industry. Forecasts for the five biggest publicly-traded schools now call for revenue declines to continue at least through fiscal 2014. Share prices are down between 32% and 86% in the past two years, turning some once-heady investments into major losers, as seen in a stock chart.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan today urged U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to strengthen oversight of for-profit colleges and filed comments with the Department of Education in support of requiring schools to ensure students can pay off their loans and to make more accurate and complete disclosures about their job placement rates.
A Wells Fargo stock analyst, who boosts for-profit colleges while frequently overlooking their abuses, lays the blame for one particularly predatory college's high failure rate at the feet of low-income students, or, as he calls them, "subprime" students.
It may seem odd that a state with no shortage of public colleges is urging its citizens to consider a private school. Yet that’s exactly what Missouri is doing.
The Say Yes to Education program, noted for sending public high school graduates to college for free, has added five prestigious private universities to its list of destinations.