A California lobbyist, at a state legislative hearing last week, identified himself as speaking on behalf of multiple California-based veterans organizations as he urged passage of a resolution that would benefit a group of 23 law schools in the state. The lobbyist, Seth Reeb, did not mention in his oral remarks that he also had
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On this website, we’ve highlighted many ways that Floridian Arthur Keiser, the “Chancellor and CEO” of Keiser University, appears to have leveraged his control of that multi-campus non-profit school to make big money for himself. In addition, a front-page New York Times article, a complaint filed with the IRS, extensive research by The Century Foundation,
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The U.S. Department of Education began public hearings this morning on what new rules it should consider regarding higher education. I just addressed the meeting, and here’s what I said: The Biden-Harris campaign promised their administration would “require for-profit [colleges] to first prove their value to the U.S. Department of Education before gaining eligibility for
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Today, former EPA administrator and New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman, retired generals Russel Honoré and Randy Manner, former EPA official Robert Bostock, and I, submitted a comment to the Environmental Protection Agency urging it to strengthen rules to make U.S. chemical plants less vulnerable to potentially catastrophic explosions and toxic releases.  Here’s what we
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Pushing forward with oversight of controversial conversions of for-profit colleges to non-profits, House Education and Labor Committee chair Bobby Scott (D-VA) has written to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, calling on the Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service to “take steps to reform their processes and halt the approval of all conversions until
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————————– Zovio, the long-time corporate operator of for-profit, online Ashford University, which has repeatedly faced law enforcement actions for deceiving and abusing low-income students, has added two members to its board of directors: John S. Wilson, the former president of Morehouse College, and Ron Huberman, the ex-superintendent of Chicago’s public schools. Zovio recently made a
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Late last week, as we were the first to report, college overseer ACCSC terminated the accreditation of online career college Independence University, the main school now operated by the non-profit Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE), and the U.S. Department of Education suspended from federal contracting Eric Juhlin, CEHE’s CEO. These were positive developments,
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After years of warnings, college accreditor ACCSC Thursday finally withdrew accreditation from the career college operation Center For Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE), which operates Independence University and other schools. In a letter dated April 22, ACCSC informed CEHE’s CEO, Eric Juhlin, that Independence University, the only CEHE school not in the process of closing,
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