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The status quo in higher education is hard to penetrate, as the U.S. Department of Education was reminded about when it proposed a financial transparency plan for colleges and universities. Higher Ed Dive reported that the federal agency floated the idea of creating a financial transparency website for students, which idea was met with criticism […]

For-profit colleges have enjoyed relative peace under the Trump administration, but a potential Biden presidency has sent them scrambling. According to Inside Higher Ed, for-profit colleges are fearful of the return of Obama-era regulations if the Biden-Harris ticket wins the 2020 presidential election. Steve Gunderson, CEO of Career Education Colleges and Universities, expressed his serious […]

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) is trying to prove that liberal arts majors are gainfully employed but they’re not doing so all that clearly.

Could the time to end federal aid to higher education have long passed? “The federal government has no constitutional authority to do anything with regard to higher education (or any level, for that matter),” George Leef writes in Forbes. “But in 1965, Congress was swarming with ‘progressives’ who were sure that because college seemed to […]

The U. S. Department of Education wants for-profit colleges to prove that their graduates are gainfully employed. For their part, the for-profits claim that their non-profit counterparts would fail such a test.