California-based for-profit college operation International Education Corporation (IEC) agreed last year to shut down one of its school brands and terminate its CEO after the U.S. Department of Education found extensive, illegal abuses of students and ended financial aid eligibility. Now, IEC is settling a lawsuit brought in Fresno, California, by other students who say
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The American Enterprise Institute’s Preston Cooper reported Wednesday on data he obtained from the U.S. Department of Education showing that more than 1000 colleges and universities are at risk of losing access to taxpayer-funded student aid — because too many of their ex-students are not repaying their federal student loan debt or have already defaulted.
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The California Institute of Technology will settle a class-action lawsuit from students who argued the institution misled them when they enrolled in an online cybersecurity bootcamp that bore Caltech’s name—but was run by a contractor called an online program manager, or OPM. Caltech must be explicit in its advertising that the cybersecurity program is a
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A filing in federal district court in Arizona suggests the Federal Trade Commission may be preparing to drop the 2023 lawsuit it brought against Grand Canyon Education, a case alleging that Grand Canyon University’s for-profit arm and its CEO, Brian Mueller, deceptively advertised the costs of its doctoral programs, misrepresented the non-profit status of the
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The Trump Administration, which has unlawfully fired Democrat-appointed officials across numerous federal agencies in its first six months, now claims that the appointment earlier this year of Zakiya Smith Ellis, a Democratic appointee, as chair of a key Department of Education advisory committee was “erroneous.” As the Wall Street Journal reported last week, the Department
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On the eve of the 4th of July holiday, when they probably hoped no one was paying attention, the Trump Department of Education issued an Interpretive Rule that will make it easier for for-profit colleges to evade regulations aimed at protecting students, and especially student veterans and military service members, from low-quality schools. The Department’s 90-10
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It’s a busy week for me, but I want to acknowledge, since we have focused on it here for more than two years, that the absurd deal for the University of Idaho to purchase the predatory for-profit University of Phoenix is finally dead.  That’s good news.  A wide range of Idahoans stood up against a
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Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education, billionaire Linda McMahon, has now echoed Trump’s last education secretary, billionaire Betsy DeVos, by claiming that fighting fraud in higher education means going after students, rather than holding accountable the predatory for-profit colleges and wealthy school owners who have repeatedly been caught deceiving students and taxpayers. Trump himself agreed to
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