Last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) took some long-overdue steps toward sharing with the public critical information about its dealings with troubled colleges. One new web page provides details on the Department’s Program Participation Agreements with schools, the contracts that set out the terms for eligibility for federal
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A group of 150 academic experts recently rated Donald Trump the worst president in US history. Why might that be? Here are five reasons: 1. Leadership failures. Trump concealed the dangers of COVID-19 because he was worried about his political popularity. He promoted phony treatments and suggested we inject bleach in our bodies. As a
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A dozen advocacy groups, including the NAACP and the Debt Collective, on Wednesday wrote to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, calling on the Biden Administration to cancel the student loan debt of borrowers who attended the for-profit Brooks Institute, which from 1999 until just before its 2016 closure was owned by for-profit giant Career
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Hollywood, Florida’s City College has suddenly announced it is closing. According to WPLG-10 television, the school, which has offered degrees in health care careers, sent an email to students Monday saying the school will “cease enrollment and teach-out its existing programs.” The email said the school “anticipates” continuing to teach students through the fall and
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A U.S. Department of Education advisory committee will meet August 6 to 8 for one of its twice-a-year sessions to review the performance of some of the nation’s college accrediting agencies. Members of the committee, which is called NACIQI, may end up having another public disagreement over the appropriate scope of evaluating accreditors — in
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Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are once again pressuring the Biden Department of Education to overlook abuses by predatory colleges, and to stop granting debt relief to former students — veterans, single parents, and others — who have been victimized by these schools. The House Appropriations committee is set on Wednesday morning to
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A major investigative report from the Arizona Republic finds that the University of Arizona Global Campus, the online college that the state’s flagship university bought from a for-profit company, has continued to mislead students about the value and costs of their degrees. Students who spoke with the Republic described UAGC admissions staff engaging in aggressive
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A Fort Worth-based federal judge on Thursday denied a motion by two for-profit cosmetology schools that sought to block implementation of the Biden Department of Education’s gainful employment rule, a regulation that would, over time, cut off federal aid to for-profit and career college programs that consistently leave graduates with debt they cannot afford to
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