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The U.S. Department of Education today announced it has levied a $37.7 million fine on Grand Canyon University for alleged deceptions of students in the school’s doctoral programs. The fine amount, unusually large for the Department, was pegged to the gravity and scope of the abuses, as well as the size of the institution and
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The executive chairman of Perdoceo, one of the nation’s largest taxpayer-funded for-profit college operations, has been sued by the parents of his daughter-in-law, two years after she was found dead from what authorities ruled a suicide. On August 8, Traci Phillips and Troy Pehrson, the parents of Tiffani Nelson, filed a civil complaint in District
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The U.S. Department of Education today issued a final “gainful employment” rule, aimed at ensuring that students who attend for-profit and career colleges get lasting value for their time and hard-earned money, and U.S. taxpayers get a real return on their own investment in student aid. On a call with reporters late today announcing the
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In 2016, the Obama administration issued a regulation that, for the first time, meaningfully implemented a federal law that allows former students to have their federal loan debt cancelled if there is sufficient evidence that their school scammed them. This borrower defense rule established standards and procedures for students to seek such debt relief, and
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The University of Arkansas System Board of Trustees last month voted its disapproval of a plan by the institution’s president to acquire the troubled for-profit giant University of Phoenix, with several trustees expressing concerns, including about the structure of the deal, and one trustee declaring that Phoenix “has a terrible reputation.” Two weeks ago, six
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Semafor has obtained a document showing that the Tucker Carlson-founded conservative outlet Daily Caller has provided donors the opportunity to “propose topics for coverage” and establish news beats for reporters in exchange for financial contributions. The memo seems to confirm, as we have long suspected, that the Daily Caller had a pay-to-play beat aimed at
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  This week the U.S. Department of Education held its semi-annual meeting of NACIQI, the Department’s outside advisory committee of higher education experts charged with reviewing the performance of the private accrediting agencies that oversee quality at colleges and universities. Due to other commitments, I wasn’t able to observe the entire meeting, but here is some
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Todd Nelson, the executive chairman of Perdoceo Education Corp., one of America’s largest for-profit college companies, has sold a huge volume of his shares in the company in recent weeks — even as Perdoceo has been telling investors that things are going well. Nelson has frequently been featured on this website because of his outsized
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