Ballots cast in November will help decide how the federal government confronts the costs of college and what role the private sector plays in higher education.
Harvard University students under investigation for cheating on a take-home government course exam said they’re waging a battle against the allegations, writes John Lauerman for Bloomberg Businessweek.
When a Senate committee led by Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa concluded its two-year investigation of 30 for-profit colleges in July, it issued a harsh assessment of the companies that run them, citing predatory recruiting practices, harassment of students and poor results.
Not all college educations are created equal. And as long as a university’s prestige has been associated with its exclusivity, the rungs of higher education have been racially stratified. Nowhere is this reality more clear than today, when the for-profit college giant the University of Phoenix, is graduating the most college graduates of color in the nation.
The Council of Independent Colleges, a group representing more than 600 private liberal arts colleges and universities, is arguing against what it says are myths about student debt (and for its members' affordability) in a new presentation, indicating that the concern around growing student debt might be affecting the group
Although private non-profit colleges and universities have a long and distinguished history throughout the world, what has come to be known as ‘for-profit higher education’ is a relative newcomer.
According to the most recent Almanac issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, published last month, 42.4 percent of all higher education enrollments in Missouri are at independent (or private) two- and four-year colleges and universities. This is far higher than the national average of 24 percent and the highest, to my knowledge, of any of the 50 states.
Regent University, a private, nonprofit school in Virginia, said in a statement it will reduce tuition for its MBA program by 24 percent and online undergraduate by 20 percent. Tuition for several other programs will receive smaller cuts.
Dozens of private colleges across the country are trying similar cuts. Higher education experts say that could signal a change in how colleges set prices and disburse financial aid.
Duke University has appointed Liu Jingnan, former president of Wuhan University, to be chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, and Mary Brown Bullock, former president of Agnes Scott College, to be the institution’s executive vice chancellor
The American University in Cairo has suspended classes because of student protests, reports the Egypt Independent. On Sunday students objecting to an annual 7-percent increase in tuition barricaded campus gates and blocked access for faculty members and fellow students, leading to heated confrontations.
Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman’s retirement next June along with departures of the heads at Yale University and Dartmouth College mark a generational shift in leadership in the Ivy League.
The Washington Post Co.’s Kaplan higher-education division will close nine campuses and consolidate four others into existing nearby locations, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The company said it would stop new enrollments at the nine campuses it is closing, but that it would continue teaching the students currently enrolled there.
For-profit colleges collected $32 billion from the federal government in the 2010-11 academic year, but three of those schools will now be cut off from that money.
People who attend private profit-making schools account for 47 percent of all those with a loan in default. Public schools account for 42 percent; private nonprofit, 12 percent. Loans are considered in default when payments are 360 days delinquent.