An ordinance regulating private and vocational training schools and colleges not connected to a school or college district will take effect in 30 days following final approval Monday on a 4-0 vote with Councilman Ron Schnablegger absent because of illness.
The lobbying group of for-profit colleges, APSCU, today released a report, "Best Practices in Recruitment and Admissions." State and federal authorities, and private lawyers, have been investigating for-profit colleges, and winning settlements, arbitrations, and jury verdicts in cases where recruiters used coercive tactics and made false promises to prospective students about college costs, job placement rates, and other critical matters.
There is no question: the price of higher education has increased to a very unpopular standard. Some private colleges and universities will even ask for more than $60,000 for one year of education, while students in countries like Norway, Scotland, Spain, Morocco, and Turkey, can attend post-secondary education for free. For the United States, there is no such bargain. In the past decade, federal student loan debt more than doubled from $41 billion to $103 billion.
Representatives of for-profit colleges stepped up their criticism Monday of the Education Department’s efforts to rewrite the “gainful employment” rules that would apply to their institutions and vocational programs at community colleges.
Wellesley College will invite Xia Yeliang, a Chinese economics professor recently fired by Peking University and an outspoken advocate for democracy and human rights in China, to be a visiting fellow.
Georgetown University has come under fire for inviting Ramy Jan, a founding member of the Egyptian Nazi Party, to speak at a conference next month called “Egypt and the Struggle for Democracy.” The university responded on Wednesday by rescinding its invitation.
New York University has agreed to let most of its graduate-student employees vote on forming a union, ending a dispute over the students' unionization rights that had been pending before the National Labor Relations Board.
For-profit Caribbean medical schools that don’t have access to U.S. federal loans are finding a way around the rules: Encouraging some students to enroll simultaneously in online master’s programs at U.S. universities.
The parent company of the University of Phoenix announced Tuesday that it is laying off 500 workers around the country as it faces declining enrollment and transitions to more online-only courses.
Just over a year ago, Senator Tom Harkin released a report detailing the predatory nature of many for-profit colleges. According to the report, these schools are often incredibly expensive, leave students with huge debts, have poor graduation rates, employ aggressive and unethical recruiting tactics, and receive billions of dollars in taxpayer money. Typically, for-profit colleges rely on federal grants and student loan money to cover the cost of high tuition prices of what often amount to worthless degrees.
Ernesto Perez has resigned as president and chief executive officer of Dade Medical College, a for-profit institution in Florida, less than a week after prosecutors charged him with perjury and providing false information through a sworn statement, according to reports by The Miami Herald and the South Florida Business Journal.
Apollo Group Inc. (APOL), the largest U.S. for-profit college chain, posted fourth-quarter profit and revenue that topped analysts’ estimates even as enrollment fell.
On Friday, prosecutors in Miami charged the politically-connected CEO of for-profit Dade Medical College, Ernesto Perez, with the felony charge of providing false information through a sworn statement, plus two misdemeanor counts of perjury.
The Carmel-based operator of for-profit colleges on Thursday morning said it earned $18.9 million, or 80 cents per share, in the period ended Sept. 30, down from $42.9 million, or $1.83 per share, a year ago. Profit declined 56 percent on a per-share basis.
While the federal government is still in the process of developing a plan to require greater accountability from for-profit colleges, Capella is giving students a new way to judge their employable skills progress.
Wake Forest University was one of four North Carolina schools recognized as best values among private universities and liberal arts colleges by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, the magazine said Friday.
Every year, price increases at private colleges prompt a round of appalled responses and calls for corrective action. But even as some sticker prices approach $60,000 a year, the amount that students actually pay — because of increased discounts, grants and tax benefits — has barely changed over the last decade, according to a major analysis of college costs published this week.
The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas.
Universities in Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania have united to improve recruitment of faculty, staff and administrators. The two- and four-year public and private institutions are establishing a regional Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to offer “one-stop shopping” for dual-career couples.
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