An article in The Washington Monthly promises Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Higher Education Policy but doesn’t quite deliver.
Topic: for-profit colleges
Why Shouldn’t All Universities Show Gainful Employment?
President Trump’s Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, wants to actually apply such an equal treatment.
Purdue Buys For-Profit Kaplan University
Purdue University made a big deal, buying Kaplan University in order to evolve in the online higher education environment.
Government Persecutes For Profit Colleges
Can it be that the federal government has been waging war on for-profit colleges because, with all their problems, they still make traditional institutions of higher learning look bad? For example, the Obama Administration famously…
Clinton-Linked For-Profit Laureate University Donated between $1 Million-$5 Million to Clinton Foundation
Pay to play? Laureate International Universities — also referred to as Laureate Education — has faced scrutiny over its financial relationship with the Clintons, who have faced a string of pay-to-play allegations related to the Clinton Foundation…
For-Profit Colleges have seen Large Drops in Enrollment due to Scrutiny
The University of Phoenix saw enrollment drop 22% this year and 70% since 2010. Other for-profit colleges have seen similar results.
40% of College Students are Over the Age of 25
Wow…read it for yourself: In today’s rapidly shifting economy, Americans now know that keeping their skills and education fresh is a lifelong imperative. The proportion of “adult learners” has exploded in recent years, and students…
ITT Tech could Close after Federal Investigation
From Inside Higher Ed on the potential collapse of ITT Tech, a for-profit academic institution: Last week, after years of investigations, the U.S. Department of Education banned ITT Tech from enrolling new students who receive federal funding while…
Dept of Ed Releases New Rules on Debt Forgiveness, For-Profit Colleges
For-profit colleges now have more rules to follow, related to debt forgiveness.
Will the Media Also Examine the Clinton For-Profit Education Scandal?
Is the race for the White House really coming down to which presidential candidate was tied to the less scandal-plagued for-profit school? Not if the media have anything to say about it. They only want…
Faculty Lounge
Ex-New Yorker Reporter, who Resigned after Fact Check Controversy, Slated to Teach at NYU’s Journalism School
University of California Fellow Took Issue with Free Speech Center Censorship
Anonymous Criticism in Media could lead to Discipline at Private Catholic University in Ohio
University of Maryland Students Vote to Create Full-Time Illegal Immigrant Academic Advisor
CUNY Department Believes ‘Whiteness’ is a Problem in their English Program
Black Lives Matter Exposed
Book Review
Why Angela Davis Should Remember the Jonestown Massacre
Not that anyone should forget but the revolutionary radical turned credentialed academic has a special reason to remember the mass suicide/homicide that occurred 40 years ago in the country of Guyana on November 18, 1978.
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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