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.
America made a commitment to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: In return for their service, the country would help pay for their college education when they came home.
Are nonprofit schools a better deal for returning veterans than for-profit schools? A study by the Mississippi Center for Justice finds that since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 14 percent of $83 million in GI Bill funds spent for education in Mississippi went to for-profit schools, but those schools enrolled only 7 percent of student-veterans. Veterans spent $2,933 per student more at for-profit schools than at private nonprofit schools, $11,900 more than at community colleges, and $10,321 more than at traditional public colleges and universities.
The U.S. Department of Education has signaled it wants to be more aggressive in policing for-profit colleges by proposing rules that would make it easier to cut off funding to low-performing schools and, in some cases, force colleges to help borrowers who are stuck with large debts and low earnings.
The Federal Trade Commission is getting tougher with for-profit colleges, opening a new front in the latest Obama administration-led attempt to crack down on the sector.
Adding to its commitment to the American retail industry as a vital sector of the country's economy, University of Phoenix, one of the nation's largest private universities, and Stein Mart today announced a new scholarship program for employees of the nationwide retailer.
Enrollment at private universities in Palm Beach County shot up this past year while those in the public sphere were stagnant or barely changed. The private schools credit their efforts to recruitment — from special attention to students visiting campus to reaching out to students as far away as Sri Lanka.
IE, which stands for International Excellence, is a private university founded in 1997. Its first program in Florida will be taught in its new office in the Blue Lagoon area and online, the Business Journal said.
The strength of America’s private universities means that the nation will continue to lead world higher education despite Asia’s rise – but US public universities are falling far behind those private institutions.
"Private colleges and universities are expected to post higher net tuition revenue growth (2.5 percent) than their public counterparts (2 percent) in the 2017 fiscal year"
"In early 2015, 15 students at Corinthian Colleges, then one of the largest for-profit college chains, formed a group called the Corinthian 15 and pledged to strike until their student loans were discharged. Corinthian Colleges shuttered its doors just months later, displacing roughly 16,000 students."
"Dowling College became a rare nonprofit college to file for bankruptcy on Tuesday 29 Nov after the liberal arts school near New York lost its academic accreditation in August and closed its doors after 48 years"
"The Department of Education (ED) on Tuesday dropped Globe University and Minnesota School of Business (MSB) – two for-profit colleges under the same ownership – from participating in federal student aid programs"
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