The former head of Student Veterans of America has been hired as a key military adviser for a key for-profit university lobbying group, in charge of efforts to develop veteran-friendly initiatives.
The lobbying group of America's for-profit colleges, APSCU, announced today that Michael Dakduk is its new Vice President of Military and Veterans Affairs. Dakduk had just left the job of executive director of the Student Veterans of America (SVA). You heard that right.
Benny Napoleon finally made it to WDET's Craig Fahle Show Friday morning and, during a discussion about marijuana policy, the Wayne County Sheriff touted his credentials, not only as law enforcement veteran, but also as a criminal justice professor. He didn't mention that he taught at the for-profit University of Phoenix.
IN his 2011 TED talk, Gene Wade thus shared his vision of an ultra low-cost college degree for working adults. As of today, he has raised $42 million in venture capital for his new company, UniversityNow, and its two for-profit universities, Patten and New Charter. The first students started in the spring. Around the same time, Forbes magazine named Mr. Wade the most disruptive figure in education.
Strayer Education announced Thursday that it would close about 20 physical campuses, mostly in the Midwest, to cut costs in response to a 17 percent year-over-year enrollment drop that has sharply reduced its revenues.
Spring Hill was caught in the same tailspin that many U.S. private colleges are facing as they endure plummeting enrollment among price-conscious students.
Forbes magazine recently reported that over 50% of the working population (120 million individuals) now works in a small business. Small businesses have generated over 65% of the net new jobs since 1995.
Our annual rankings of the best values in private colleges and universities (kiplinger.com/links/privatecolleges) highlight some interesting trends -- one of which is that private four-year schools are pumping the brakes on tuition increases. This year, private institutions raised tuition by an average of 3.56 percent, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. That's the lowest increase in four decades.
Private equity firm founder Bradford Freeman made it onto the field for one play as a Stanford University scholarship football player and jokes that he is “the highest-paid student-athlete, per minute, in history.”
Colleges are facing a decline in the number of high school seniors, uncertainty over the federal government's tuition assistance program for military personnel and an improving economy, which can prompt some students to turn to work instead of college.
For the second time in two years, Congress is trying to close a loophole that allows for-profit colleges and universities to collect billions of federal dollars in tuition from veterans.
If universities are unable to adapt to new technologies, they will eventually have to face the reality of the free market, which could favor a for-profit system, according to Jane Shaw, president of the Pope Center for Higher Educational Policy.
Once the hottest things in higher education, private, for-profit colleges and universities have suddenly found themselves on the business equivalent of academic probation.
A U.S. Senate Committee last year castigated the for-profit world of higher education for excesses in recruiting and for too often providing a path to debt and failure rather than opportunity.
Once the hottest things in higher education, private, for-profit colleges and universities have suddenly found themselves on the business equivalent of academic probation.
While new numbers show the embattled for-profit world of higher education slightly improved its student-loan default rate, the number still far exceeds numbers for private nonprofit and public colleges and universities.
This Veterans Day, one way you can honor your neighbors, friends or cousins who have returned from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan is to help them avoid a scam.
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