US Department of Education revamps rule requiring for-profit colleges to receive no more than 90 percent of profits from federal student loans
HIGHER ED DIVE — Last week, the Education Department wrapped up months of negotiated rulemaking, a process that requires the agency to convene representatives from across higher education to attempt to reach consensus on new regulatory proposals. The sessions involved talks among more than a dozen representatives for different groups, including nonprofit colleges, for-profit institutions and…
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HIGHER ED DIVE — The Ed Department’s positions during the negotiated rulemaking sessions reflect the Biden administration’s desire to crack down on for-profit colleges. Several of the agency’s proposals would tighten regulations governing proprietary colleges and further limit how much of their revenue can come from federal financial aid. After private talks with representatives for student…
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Many student-facing administrators are considering leaving higher education, thanks to a fraught political climate, limited resources, and a rapidly expanding set of responsibilities that are causing exhaustion and burnout. Colleges urgently need to take steps to keep them around. That’s a key conclusion of a new report from Naspa: Student Affairs…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The California State University Board of Trustees voted unanimouslyWednesday to no longer use standardized SAT and ACT tests in undergraduate admissions. That means that even if an applicant submits scores for admission to one of the system’s 23 campuses, Cal State admissions counselors won’t look at them. The system’s campuses enroll a total…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing Thursday about the series of bomb threats received by historically Black colleges and universities this year. Several HBCU student leaders told lawmakers of the fear and anxiety felt by students, faculty and staff members on their campuses and the value of an HBCU…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — An assistant professor of business at Chapman University is suing students for posting parts of his midterm and final course exams on the website Course Hero. But he doesn’t know who those students are yet. That’s what the lawsuit is for: by suing John Does for copyright infringement, the professor, David Berkovitz,…
Read More about College professor sues students for sharing exams on online platformDetails on federal student loan forgiveness qualifications
FORBES — Last week, the Biden administration announced that it had identified 100,000 borrowers who will qualify for $6.2 billion in student loan forgiveness — the latest wave of relief that the administration is providing to distressed borrowers. But the loan forgiveness has been preliminarily approved under a specific program with specific eligibility criteria. Here’s who qualifies. The…
Read More about Details on federal student loan forgiveness qualificationsSurvey: Public opinion of higher education improves slightly
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Public confidence in higher education ebbed badly in the latter half of the last decade, to judge by the steady stream of opinion polls from 2017 through 2019 that showed Americans (especially Republicans) increasingly convinced that colleges and universities were heading in the wrong direction, failing to prepare graduates for work and…
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THE ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION — A Senate version of legislation that seeks to control classroom discussions of race would no longer affect Georgia’s public colleges and universities. In addition, K-12 school districts would no longer face financial penalties for violating the provisions in Senate Bill 377. The Senate Education and Youth Committee made those amendments…
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MARKETPLACE — According to the Institute of International Education, more than 6,500 Ukrainian and Russian students attended college or grad school in the United States last school year. If being abroad during COVID-19 hasn’t been hard enough, now these students are dealing with war and changing economies at home. For the past several months, Hanna Onyshchenko has…
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