Trustees at two Roman Catholic colleges in Western New York want to look at each other’s books in what may be the first step toward a new and expansive partnership, if not necessarily a merger.
For the third year in a row, the California Institute of Technology has retained the No. 1 spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Harvard University and the University of Oxford tied for second place, while Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rounded out the top five.
Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese human-rights activist who had a public fight with New York University this past summer that raised questions about the influence of China on American higher education, has found a new home in academe. Mr. Chen will be a visiting fellow here at Catholic University of America, and will also be affiliated with a conservative think tank and a human-rights group started by a Democratic congressman.
Harvard University will not divest of its endowment holdings in the fossil fuel industry, said a statement issued Thursday by Drew Faust, the president. She wrote that she and board members did not consider such a move to be "warranted or wise."
Competition for students among private universities in Kenya is intensifying, with institutions taking to both the electronic and print media to advertise programmes and display achievements. The private higher education sector is thriving, and now enrols 20% of all students.
New York University is willing to let some graduate students vote on whether to form a union, marking a possible return to the collective-bargaining rights they once held. It's a pitch the university made months ago and reiterated to union organizers on Friday.
Nigeria has 100 public and 30 private universities. A strike by lecturers has paralysed public institutions for the past three months, while teaching at private universities has continued. As a result, there has been a rush by parents with financial muscle to register their children in private universities, whose proprietors are smiling all the way to the bank.
New York University is willing to let some graduate students vote on whether to form a union, marking a possible return to the collective-bargaining rights they once held. It's a pitch the university made months ago and reiterated to union organizers on Friday.
Laureate Education is big. Like 800,000 students attending 78 institutions in 30 countries big. Yet the privately held for-profit university system has largely remained out of the public eye.
Finding affordable higher education options in Dubai seems increasingly difficult with private universities cashing in on a growing demand in the region.
Private College 529 PlanSM (PC529), a prepaid tuition plan sponsored by more than 270 leading private colleges and universities, today announced the addition of Saint Joseph's College (SJC) of Rensselaer, IN. Marking a decade of delivering access to more affordable private higher education, the plan is pleased to offer families another secure option in the Midwest for their children's future college plans. PC529 offers families a guaranteed way to get tomorrow's tuition at today's prices for up to 30 years after purchase. As a new member school, SJC will accept tuition credits redeemed by PC529 accountholders.
Brenau University President Ed Schrader told members of the South Forsyth Rotary Club in Cumming this week that the rapid growth in the Sunbelt region of the United States demands more private higher education opportunities—particularly for adult learners in graduate and undergraduate health care studies.
Private higher education institutions have seen more than 48,000 students taking admissions by end of the last academic year, while the public higher education institutions recorded a drop of 21 per cent in student numbers
The Obama administration is toughening its regulation of for-profit colleges in numerous straightforward ways, most notably and publicly by taking another shot (after a federal judge blocked the last one) at drafting rules requiring vocational programs to prove that they are preparing students for "gainful employment."
California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris filed a lawsuit Thursday against Corinthian Colleges Inc. and its subsidiaries, accusing the company of false and predatory advertising, securities fraud and intentional misrepresentations to students.
Adjunct faculty members at Bentley University have voted, 100 to 98, against forming a union, dealing an early setback to an effort by the Service Employees International Union to organize adjunct instructors throughout the Boston metropolitan area.
A for-profit university misleads students about its accreditations, credit transfers, and the jobs and salaries they can expect upon graduation, a class claims.
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.
Here's a question for India's education-obsessed middle class and upper middle class parents: Would you send your son or daughter to a well-funded, well-appointed, classy private university backed by some of India's best names in business and academia but one that offers a liberal arts education?
The mushroom growth of private universities in almost every nook and cranny of the big cities, especially the divisional headquarters, has for long been a cause for worry. Although initially, say in the early nineties, when private universities began to be housed in residential and commercial buildings, it did not raise many eyebrows as the public universities were not at all able to cope with the increasing demands for higher education.
More top U.S. universities are now admitting undocumented students. Just last month, the University of Notre Dame said undocumented students who apply for undergraduate admission would now be accepted.
With thousands of seats in private engineering colleges lying vacant in recent years, some colleges are mulling the option of converting the technical institution into an arts and science institution, as there is a rise in the enrolment in arts and science courses.
Concealed carry permit owners will now legally be allowed to bring handguns onto UNC-CH’s and other public universities’ campuses, as a new state law goes into effect today.
In North Carolina, the difference between private and public institutions affects how colleges can enforce gun laws. Several days ago, Duke University officials released a statement addressing new gun legislation and fire arm safety on campus, according to the Duke Chronicle.
There are now 19 public and private universities and higher education institutions, with almost 100,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Two universities conduct their courses in English and others teach science courses in English.
In the wake of the rise in number of seats going unclaimed after counselling year after year, some private engineering colleges are mulling conversion into an arts and science institutions.
A two-judge bench of the AP High Court on Monday gave its nod to the admissions made in private medical colleges for the present academic year. The bench of Justice Ashutosh Mohunta and Justice D Seshadiri Naidu dismissed a batch of 50 writ petitions primarily on the ground that the writ petitions raised disputed questions of fact but failed to place strong evidence in support of the allegations.
In a significant ruling on Monday, the AP High Court directed that the content and format of applications of all private medical colleges shall be uniform and they shall be made available even at the NTR Health University.
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.
With the sticker price on private colleges averaging $45,000 and even the typical public university asking $23,000 a year, families at all income levels need help with tuition bills: A College Board poll last February found that about three-quarters of families earning more than $100,000 were applying for aid for the 2013-14 academic year.
This year's admissions to private medical and dental colleges elicited very few complaints, only 14, as compared to more than 80 last year. While official data show that the admissions to the vacant seats after the second round in these colleges went smoothly, parents say many of their wards could not even attempt to seek admission, with just one day's deadline given to them.
On the first day of October, several new laws took effect in North Carolina, one of the most controversial of which loosened some restrictions on gun owners.
Students of private institutions kept last year’s trend alive by outperforming their counterparts at the public sector colleges when the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the commerce group results on Thursday.
When Toby Alfred was applying to college, her mother told her, “You figure out the best place you can get into and I’ll figure out a way to pay for it.” In retrospect, she says, that was “a tremendous gift.” Neither of her parents were college graduates; her mother was a bookkeeper; her father worked as an office manager and money was tight. Alfred got a scholarship to Carnegie Mellon and took out loans to pay for her MBA from the University of Chicago.
Private colleges in southern Vietnam are demanding very high tuition, which is up to 15 times that collected by public schools, but aren’t necessarily matching the high prices with a quality education.
The results of second-year students of commerce and humanities were announced on Thursday during a ceremony hosted at the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi.
Having accused the BJP government of turning Himachal into Bihar by allowing a large number of private universities and compromising with standards of higher education, the Himachal government on Saturday did a complete U-turn.
The private education market in the Middle East is the fastest growing in the world. With an increasing number of international schools being built, strong population growth and continued economic expansion, the value of the private education market in the GCC has risen to $15 billion. This is according to an IIR Middle East report on ‘Trends in Private Education Investment and Expansion in MENA 2013’.
Application will be open to the graduates of secondary schools or equivalent in the year 2006/2007 and up to the year 2011-2012. The ministry will cover full tuition fees, agreed on with private higher education institutions beginning from the academic year 2013-2014.
A for-profit college chain intentionally deceived prospective students and investors about the value of its degrees and sought out the socially isolated and disadvantaged, according to a lawsuit California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed Thursday.
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).
According to an analysis by Facebook, of the top 25 colleges where men are most likely to meet their spouse, all are private Christian institutions. For women, more than half (64 percent) of the top 25 colleges where they’re likely to find a husband are religious schools.
There are many things that make Habib University a unique and interesting project, the least of which involves financing of the university and architectural aspects of its campus. In what constitutes "one of the largest" investments in a private university in Pakistan, most of the funding for this university currently comes from House of Habib. But Rizvi says that a good private university needs to be owned by the society, which is why the management plans to raise money from a variety of sources in the private sector.
The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, or APSCU, is the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group for America's for-profit colleges. APSCU has opposed a wide range of reasonable efforts by the Obama administration and members of Congress to hold bad actors in its industry accountable for waste, fraud, and abuse with the roughly $32 billion a year in federal tax dollars they receive.
Graduate student unionization is very much in the news these days, with the National Labor Relations Board expected to rule soon on whether graduate assistants may unionize at private universities.
Grand Canyon University has announced that it will freeze on-campus tuition costs in 2014-15 for the sixth straight year. Tuition for online students also will remain unchanged for the next academic year.
Exim Bank Agriculture University, the country’s first private agriculture university in Chapainawabganj, started its journey yesterday creating new scopes for the students interested in higher education on agriculture.
Asbury University became the first private institution of higher learning in Kentucky to enter the Kentucky Proud Farm to Campus Program in a ceremony yesterday, Oct. 10, in front of the school’s Johnson Cafeteria.
In the 1970s, private universities arrived, hoping to open another door to prospective learners that were stripped of the opportunity due to Taiwan's limited budget for education. But who knew that the problematic bud of private education would be blooming and throttling the nation's future over the next 40 years.
Tuition and fees at private, non- profit U.S. colleges rose 3.6 percent in 2013-2014, the smallest increase in more than 40 years, as families struggle to afford college costs.
State Sen. Robert W. Singer, R-Ocean, has withdrawn his support for a controversial bill that would exempt private nonprofit colleges and universities from local zoning rules.
With ‘surplus’ universities and schools being encouraged to shut down or merge due to Taiwan’s demographic downturn, the government has said that private institutions should not be allowed to profiteer from selling land designated for educational use.
Count Lesley University in Cambridge among the growing class of mid-tier, private colleges feeling the strains from the new financial calculus affecting the entire U.S. higher-education industry.
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.
The deadline for private schools and hospitals to relocate from residential areas should be extended, said Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak on Thursday.
Private nonprofit colleges increased tuition by 3.6 percent on average for this academic year, according to a survey from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of its members. It’s the lowest rate of tuition increase increase since at least 1972. And the association found that financial aid budgets have increased more quickly than tuition.
African countries are still too focused on the state sector, and this hinders the private sector from contributing to alleviating poverty in the region, experts said during the IMF/World Bank meetings
It’s been a busy time for the education sector in the Brazilian stock market. In less than a week, two large groups of private universities have filed for initial public offerings, which together could raise as much as R$1.6 billion (US$730 million). But there’s more action than IPOs. This year, three mergers and acquisitions of major education companies also shook up the sector, which is making big bets on online distance learning.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris sued Corinthian Colleges Inc., the parent company of a chain of career-preparation colleges, in San Francisco Superior Court Thursday for alleged false advertising and marketing about its job placement rates.
The for-profit college industry is under pressure. Many of its biggest companies are being investigated by federal agencies and state attorneys general for fraud and misrepresentation -- deceiving students, regulators, and investors about job placement rates, costs and quality of programs, transferability of credits, and other matters. Enrollments are down, and share prices have been falling.
While the Internet is full of scams and misinformation, the evolution of the online for-profit college is becoming one of the more serious as gullible students are lured into the system with unfounded claims and promises.
Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota, chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee. He also is a living symbol of the Republican Party's shameful loyalty to big for-profit colleges that have added to the corruption of U.S. politics, systematically ripped off taxpayers, and ruined the futures of countless students.
The motivating factor behind private companies venturing into online education is not to expand access to colleges and universities or reduce costs for schools and students, but rather a desire to make money. That's according to a report released by a national group of faculty leaders on Wednesday.
One of the types of institutions that has encountered public scrutiny in recent years is the for-profit higher education business model. These schools provide certificate and degree programs, with the majority of their student body often enrolled in associate’s degree programs.
True to its status as an education hub, three colleges from the city figure in the list of colleges identified by the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) to be accorded the power to grant degrees, a privilege that is hitherto reserved for the universities. The 45-college list has 11 from the state.
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.
It has been a busy time for the education sector in the Brazilian stock market. In less than a week, two large groups of private universities have filed for initial public offerings, or IPOs, which together could raise as much as R$1.6 billion (US$740 million). This year, three mergers and acquisitions of major education companies also shook up the sector, which is making big bets on online distance learning, writes Patricia Gomes for edSurge.
In an era of private universities, those of the 61,000 left stranded, whose parents can afford it, would be admitted into private universities or sent abroad. Let say 10,000. And another 10,000 would find their way into the polytechnic system and other state tertiary institutions.
Despite instructions by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) and the University Grants Commission (UGC), most private universities in the State have no or incomplete details about their procedures and functioning on their websites. This, say experts, amounts to a violation of the norms of disclosure of information in public interest
Washington and Who? If you don’t hail from the South, you may be unfamiliar with Washington and Lee University. But this pint-size liberal arts college is making a name for itself as an outsize undergraduate value. Number one for the first time on Kiplinger’s liberal arts list, it has been flirting with first place for several years, landing in our top ten consistently since 2007
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.
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.
What began with a rush by private educational trusts to set up engineering colleges in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka a decade ago, is now suffering distress sales as the institutions fail to attract students to fill the available places.
Part-time faculty at several Boston-area colleges, frustrated by low pay and emboldened by their growing ranks, are taking steps to unionize amid an emerging national movement to give adjunct professors the chance to negotiate better working conditions and benefits.
Even though colleges have slowed the rate at which they raise tuition, the total grant aid available to students has not been able to keep pace with tuition growth, according to two reports released Wednesday by the College Board.
Aggressive recruiters, toll-free numbers and late-night TV commercials mark some of the tactics used by fraudulent for-profit schools that Attorney General Martha Coakley said her office is investigating.
Grand Canyon Education (LOPE) continues to prove that education pays off handsomely. Its stock jumped as much as 16% early Wednesday in massive volume after the for-profit university reported outstanding results late Tuesday and outlined a broad expansion program.
People with college degrees make more money than people without college degrees. They are also less likely to experience unemployment, and if they do, they tend to be unemployed for shorter spells than those without a degree.