One by one, the faces pop up on the computer screen. Some of the aspiring teachers hold coffee cups; others have their hair in ponytails or pushed into caps.
America’s for-profit colleges and universities are playing an increasingly important role in supplying higher education that meets workforce demands, a leader in the field said in Atlanta this week.
As we move from a federal budget crisis towards a federal debt crisis, ways to reign in student debt will almost certainly be on the table. The US government spends about $5.5 billion subsidizing student loans each year, depending on who you ask. It's a rather elusive figure. Student debt, more so than other forms of debt, is particularly complicated for many reasons.
Recent college students are defaulting on federal loans at the highest rate in nearly two decades, reflecting "crisis" levels of student debt and a lackluster economy that leaves graduates with bleak employment prospects.
More than half of private colleges that grant bachelor’s degrees and public colleges that grant bachelor’s and master’s degrees had not met their fall enrollment goals by May 1, according to the latest “Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admission Directors.”
With private engineering colleges in the state facing a large number of student vacancies, some of them are resorting to unscrupulous means to fill up seats.
Students at one Michigan college soon won’t need to worry about making student loan payments if they don’t land a well-paying job right after graduation.
Embattled Virginia Intermont College expects to announce merger plans with another institution soon, according to correspondence issued to alumni this week.
After several years of startling revelations about its predatory abuses of students, the for-profit college industry faces growing skepticism from the public. Thousands of students across the country have complained that they were deceived by for-profit college recruiters about the cost of programs, the quality of programs, and the value of for-profit degrees in the job market.
More than a year after the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions produced a shocking report on the manipulative and wasteful practices of the nation’s for-profit colleges, Congress has yet to take any meaningful action on the issue.
It's autumn, and a new batch of students are starting university. Some are walking through the ancient gates of an Oxbridge college. Others are joining a redbrick university like Manchester or Bristol. A few may even be arriving in Warwick as I did (only to realise the University of Warwick is actually in Coventry).
High tuition, few low-cost options and limited state funding are key contributors to rising college debt among New Hampshire college graduates, higher here than anywhere else in the nation.
Infamous for many irregularities, Nagpur University administration has always tried to suppress controversies. But this time, chancellor K Sankaranarayanan himself has sought clarification from vice chancellor Vilas Sapkal on the NU move to illegally grant benefit to ME/MTech students, who had been admitted by colleges even before they got affiliation last year, NU officials said.
A new program by Ohio Northern University would drastically reduce the school’s sticker price, though it’s unclear how much students would actually save.
Southern Virginia University is the latest among a spate of small private colleges to slash their sticker prices in an effort to be more transparent about costs and to attract new students.
It is always good when politicians can recognize the error of their ways. State Sen. Robert W. Singer, R-Ocean, has done just that. Last week, Singer withdrew his support for a controversial bill that would exempt private nonprofit colleges and universities from local zoning rules.
The state is still reviewing bids submitted earlier this summer by the owners of four buildings in downtown Springfield offering to lease space to UMass. Caret said he has invited the presidents of private universities located in Springfield to a meeting later this month. The private university presidents have said they’re concerned about competition from the state’s public university.
Private colleges and universities are somewhat immune to many of the legal challenges of affirmative action policies since they don’t take public funds. Still, minorities are significantly underrepresented in private institutions, and enrollment has declined dramatically since the 1990s. White students were five times more likely to apply to a private university than a black or Hispanic student and were two to three times more likely to gain admission. The study also found that almost 60 percent of the enrolled students came from families representing the top quarter of income distribution, regardless of race.