Report Proposes Federal Matching Grants for State Higher Education
As Congress begins debating the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, proposals to change how public colleges get their federal money are starting to pop up. On Wednesday, the American...
View ArticleReport Proposes Another Way to Raise State Spending on Higher Education
With state spending on public colleges recovering slowly and tuition rates still rising, a policy-advocacy group has proposed creating a competitive federal grant program to give states incentives to...
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Government Investigations and Suits Against For-Profit Colleges: the Grid
With the announcement on Wednesday by New Mexico’s attorney general, Gary King, that his office was suing ITT Educational Services over alleged misrepresentations to nursing students, a total of 22...
View ArticleNew Data Shed Light on Use of PLUS Loans and Controversial Loan Denials
Washington — Colleges that have complained that the U.S. Department of Education has been too strict in denying PLUS loans to their students now have a little better picture of the reason for those...
View ArticleUMUC to Offer Federal Employees a Tuition Discount
To deal with skills gaps in the federal government, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has formed a partnership with the University of Maryland University College to offer discounted tuition for...
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Advocates for a Tougher ‘Gainful Employment’ Rule Step Into the Fray
Organizers from Young Invincibles who visited for-profit colleges on Tuesday saw firsthand some of the EDMC posters opposing the gainful-employment regulation hanging at an Art Institute campus in...
View ArticleWhen Laying Blame for Rising College Costs, Don’t Forget About Enrollment
In recent months, higher-education news coverage across the country has focused on the increased share of public-college costs being shifted from state governments to students. The prevailing story...
View ArticleDeath of ‘Patent Troll’ Bill Is Mixed Blessing for Research Universities
Congress now seems unlikely this year to pass patent-reform legislation aimed at controlling so-called patent trolls. That’s both good news and bad news for the research universities that have been in...
View ArticleCould a Gainful-Employment Rule Have Helped Corinthian’s Students?
With the fate of Corinthian Colleges Inc.’s 75,000-plus students now up in the air, a student-advocacy group says that many of them could have been protected from the coming upheaval if a strong...
View ArticleMoody’s Issues Negative Outlook for Higher Education
On the heels of a similarly downcast assessment by Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service has issued a negative outlook for the higher-education sector in the United States. The credit-rating...
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