Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway said this week his office is in the process of going over documents provided by a for-profit college, in response to a subpoena.
The cost of higher education as measured by private and public tuition has indeed risen at rates higher than inflation, roughly 4% per year for non-profit private tuition. And Obama is rightly focused on the middle class — incomes for upper income brackets have risen faster than the rate of tuition, so that for those groups the cost of tuition as a fraction of household income has actually come down.
Heitkamp, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, said she is also concerned about the high percentage of student debt that is privately financed, and that about 47 percent of defaults on student loans come from students of for-profit institutions
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to take out student loans than those who attend any other type of institution, according to new data released Monday by the Department of Education.
Kaplan’s fortunes are looking up. The education company no longer has to pick up the slack for The Washington Post, the venerable newspaper and loss leader that Kaplan’s corporate owner, the Washington Post Co., just sold off.
On the same day two of the state’s largest universities were coming together, tiny Dover Business College was merging with Berkeley College in a marriage of two of New Jersey’s for-profit schools.
Tucked into a defense-spending bill that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday are a pair of provisions that would bar colleges from...
ATI Career Training Center looked like dozens of other private career colleges that dot South Florida’s educational landscape. It offered hope of a new career, a path into prosperity, an escape from poverty.