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.
Marc Bousquet, who blogs for The Chronicle of Higher Education, worries in his latest post that the harsh federal spotlight currently illuminating the excesses of for-profit colleges is missing similar problems at nonprofit institutions.
Especially alarming were the numbers for two-year and for-profit colleges, with 40 percent of students who borrowed loans to attend for-profit institutions defaulting since 1995. This data comes just when for-profit colleges are being subjected to federal scrutiny in part because of the amount of federal financial aid they draw and the amount they spend on expenses other than teaching. “While for-profits educate less than 10 percent of students, those colleges’ students received close to a quarter of Pell Grant and federal-student-loan dollars in 2008,” according to the Chronicle article.
Will any of the Capital Region's private institutions of higher learning get a share of 3 million square feet of tax-free space created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's START-UP NY initiative?
Berea College was once again America's least expensive private college or university in the 2011-2012 academic year, according to U.S. Department of Education.
For many private colleges in the Northeast at least, changing demographics have compelled them to focus on new groups of potential students to starve off decline. First Generation Students (FGS) seem to many of these college's as magic bullets of sorts. If only they could attract FGS in enough numbers, keep them enrolled, maybe their financial woes would be solved. Now, many schools seek these students out for noble causes, for all the right reasons, and try to serve them well. But, still research shows that retaining these students is still a challenge.
A federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit charging that TIAA-CREF wrongfully retained investment income from the accounts of instructors at private colleges and universities around the country.
Felix Salmon, in his opinion piece, “Universities shouldn’t be tax exempt,” buries Cooper Union for the $18 million of “tax equivalency payments” it receives annually from a small square of land it owns underneath the iconic Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan—money, Salmon says, that “would normally flow to New York City in the form of property taxes, but instead gets diverted to Cooper Union for its own uses.”
Un nuevo reporte de la agencia de noticias Reuters confirma lo que muchos estudiantes universitarios ya sabían y que parece difícil de creer: Los de las universidades públicas se están graduando con más deudas que los de las privadas.
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business will move its Asia Executive M.B.A. program from Singapore to Hong Kong, making it the latest institution to move a program away from the city-state after setting down roots there. The Singapore campus, which opened in 2000, will stop accepting executive M.B.A. candidates, though the university said in its announcement that it was exploring space options for holding some activities in Singapore after the program moves.
Last week, Gov. Bill Haslam and Bob Mendenhall, president of Western Governors University, officially launched a new higher-education choice for Tennesseans: WGU Tennessee.
Jennifer Kerr took a mighty leap of faith when she sued a for-profit college for misrepresenting what kind of degree she’d be earning and its value to her future. Tucked into her contract with Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. was a provision that, should she sue and lose, Kerr would be responsible for Vatterott’s legal costs.
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has reaffirmed accreditation for the University of Phoenix for 10 years, but has placed the Phoenix-based for-profit university, which operates in Colorado, on "notice" status for the next two years.
Despite Chancellor University's ongoing woes, particularly concerning its accreditation, the school's president, Bob Daugherty, had insisted in recent years that the institution formerly known as Myers University was poised to emerge as a leader in online business education.
A joint degree run by New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), awarding a master of laws degree from both universities, had benefited just nine Singaporeans since the one-year postgraduate degree was launched in 2007, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang revealed last week.
Private College Week runs July 29 through Aug. 1. The program invites all rising high school juniors and seniors to visit one of 24 private colleges across Virginia.
When Kelsey Hunt was mulling where to go to college, she considered a half a dozen institutions before deciding to attend Spring Arbor University when she becomes a freshman this fall.
Thank you for encouraging families to use 529 plans in planning and saving for college. The fact that you write about them every couple of years is terrific. I wanted to be sure you were aware of our unique 529 plan, Private College 529.
The costs of higher education are growing much faster than inflation. The average price for tuition, fees, room and board at a private institution averages nearly $24,000, or almost half of what the average family brings in each year.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on Friday, reviewing allegations that the private liberal arts school has failed at handling sexual misconduct on campus and retaliated against sexual assault survivors.
The debate over for-profit higher education is heating up again. And while much of the criticism revived here by Democratic politicians is unlikely to lead to policy changes, at least some action appears likely in two areas in coming months.
Faculty salaries at public universities are failing to keep pace with private colleges and industry, surveys show — and that reflects South Dakota’s reality, too, though not necessarily the dire consequences.
A subsidiary of Barnes & Noble has been chosen to run Hawaii Pacific University’s bookstores in Downtown Honolulu and at its Hawaii Loa campus in Windward Oahu, the state’s largest private university said Tuesday.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has ordered the unaccredited University of Northern Virginia to shut down for failing to achieve candidacy with an accreditor recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
As part of its “Decision Makers 2013″ project, The National Journal selected 250 top Obama-administration officials and identified the colleges and universities where they received their undergraduate and graduate degrees. In that sample, it found that graduate degrees from the University of Oxford were more common than graduate degrees from any American public university. Harvard University was the top-ranked institution in both the graduate and undergraduate categories. Over all, four out of 10 officials in the group earned an undergraduate or graduate degree from an Ivy League institution.
California asked a court on Wednesday to order Bridgepoint Education to turn over hundreds of thousands of records as the state investigates complaints of false advertising at for-profit colleges.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Holly Petraeus goes on the attack, saying a federal rule encourages for-profit colleges to exploit veterans. Federal aid can make up no more than 90 percent of a for-profit college's revenue. But veterans' benefits don't count. In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Petraeus will say the rule gives "some for-profit colleges an incentive to see servicemembers as nothing more than dollar signs in uniform and to use some very unscrupulous marketing techniques.”
House Education Committee Chairman Rep. John Kline, who saw a dramatic upsurge in campaign contributions from for-profit colleges in recent months, is pushing legislation that would help the industry preserve its access to federal student loans.
Ann Arbor's University of Phoenix campus is in the process of shuttering and is not accepting new students, although the closing will likely take at least a year, according to a school official.
It's a good time to be an investor in the NASDAQ-traded company with the ticker symbol LOPE. As of Friday its share price had risen more than 48 percent this calendar year, and more than 80 percent over the past 12 months. In its first quarter earnings call held May 7, a Deutsche Bank analyst asked the company's CEO how a recent initiative might affect its marketing strategy going forward.
It sure seems ironic that the Pac-12 Conference and Arizona State President Michael Crow are targeting Grand Canyon University’s move to NCAA Division I status.
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