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Brian Mueller, the president of Grand Canyon University, which bills itself as a Christian school and is the largest recipient of federal aid of any institution of higher education, has engaged in an aggressive counterattack after (and even before) the U.S. Department of Education last October imposed a $37 million fine on the school f0r
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The U.S. Department of Education announced last week that it has approved more than $6.1 billion in automatic student loan debt cancellation for about 317,000 borrowers who attended the for-profit college chain The Art Institutes between January 2004 and October 2017.   “This institution falsified data, knowingly misled students, and cheated borrowers into taking on mountains
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Early this year, Beyoncé’s public charity BEYGood announced a tantalizing opportunity for budding cosmetologists. It would fund 25 scholarships, amounting to $10,000 each, for students attending one of five cosmetology schools nationwide. The idea is a good one — cosmetology students often come from low-income backgrounds and may end up taking out thousands of dollars in
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Grand Canyon University, which bills itself as a Christian school and is the largest recipient of federal aid of any American college or university, is once again revving up the right-wing echo chamber to claim it is facing an unwarranted assault from the U.S. Department of Education. Now, GCU’s surrogates charge the attack is aimed
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University of Arizona president Robert Robbins announced today that he is stepping down, as criticism has mounted, including from Arizona governor Katie Hobbs, over his handling of the acquisition of for-profit Ashford University, which had a long record of deceiving lower-income students, and over U of A’s related financial turmoil. “I informed the regents this
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At the urging of University of Idaho president C. Scott Green, the school’s alumni association recently hired a lobbyist whose duties have included trying to persuade state legislators not to thwart Green’s plan for his school to acquire the for-profit giant University of Phoenix. The proposed deal to spend $685 million to buy Phoenix, a
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I’m scheduled to offer a brief public comment at today’s session of the Department of Education’s negotiating rulemaking meetings, where representatives of various higher education constituencies have come together to debate new proposed regulations governing issues including distance education, state government authorization of schools, and standards for the private accrediting bodies that oversee schools.  My
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Today I’m scheduled to present brief comments (3 minutes max allowed) at a meeting of NACIQI, the U.S. Department of Education’s advisory committee charged with reviewing the performance of the private accrediting agencies that oversee quality at colleges and universities. Here’s what I plan to say: In April 2020, I wrote an article about a
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